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Richard Pryor

"I was brought up in a whorehouse in Peoria. My mother and father lived there and worked there."

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"I have many memories of waking up to eat breakfast that my mother carefully prepared for us and her saying, what do y'all want for lunch, and as we're eating lunch, what do y'all want for dinner? It's always about the next meal."

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"I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping."

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"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."

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"My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior."

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"My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles."

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"Necessity, the mother of invention."

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"The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children."

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"I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course."

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Akiroq Brost

"I am no mother, and I won't be one."

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"When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half."

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"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?"
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"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."
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"Yes, I'm religious. God has shown me things, made certain ways clear to me."
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"What I am for is justice for everyone, just like it says in the Constitution."
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"I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right."
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"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."
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