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• ‟ I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I'd go around the house interviewing everybody, telling stupid jokes, doing voices. I mimicked Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., people on 'Laugh-In,' Flip Wilson.

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• ‟ I don't think the people wanna see me play Clyde Johnson the architect.

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• ‟ Why do people love Richard Pryor so much? 'Cause he had problems.

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• ‟ I was in love with a lot of people, because I was a student of the game of comedy - Carol Burnett, Jack Benny, Red Skelton, Jackie Gleason, Don Rickles, Red Foxx, Moms Mabley - who gets no credit, Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, George Kirby. I loved them all, and I used to just take a page out of all of them.

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• ‟ I've introduced myself with comedy, and once you've introduced yourself as something, that's where people keep you. That's where people like to hold you.

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• ‟ Like a lot of black people, I grew up straight po'. Wasn't no question about whether we was po', either. If you really wanted to know, all you had to do was look in our refrigerator.

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