#v

I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think. ↗

— Richard Pryor

#about #believe #big #blessed #clear

I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, I wanna grow up and be a critic. ↗

— Richard Pryor

#critic #grow #grow up #i #kid

Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it. ↗

— Richard Pryor

#damned #day #even #i #i always

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#essential #fiction #free #imagination #order

The way I see it, the earth is going to be here after we're dead and gone. Even if it's a polluted planet, and they messed it up. Where do they go from here - to another planet so they can mess that up too? ↗

— Richard Pryor

#another #dead #earth #even #go

Introspective souls are often tormented by their passionate visions. This is because visionaries see what shall be and wake up to what is. However, if you couldn't see a glimpse of the city lights while stranded in the forest how would you ever know to walk in that direction? Sometimes your vision can't be written or spoken about unless you gather the learning experiences and stories along your journey first. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#journey #life-missions #setbacks #visionary #experience

I won't talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I'm glad I'm out and that I plan never to go back and to pay my taxes every day. ↗

— Richard Pryor

#back #day #every #every day #except

Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense. ↗

— Richard Pryor

#any #fiber #going #hurt #i

Someone called all the newspapers in New York and told them I'd died. I've been told by almost everyone it was an ex-wife - I've had a few so it's hard to pinpoint which one - but who knows for sure? ↗

— Richard Pryor

#been #called #died #everyone #ex-wife

The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay in church and leave us to our work. ↗

— Richard Pryor

#black #boycott #certain #church #films