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Born December 1, 1940 · Peoria, Illinois, USA Died December 10, 2005 · Encino, Los Angeles, California, USA (heart attack) Birth name Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor III Foul language that has been compared to raw sewage mixed with social insight that has been compared to Mark Twain. QUOTES: I live in racist America and I’m uneducated, yet a lot of people love me and like what I do, and I can make a living from it. You can’t do much better than that. I had some great things and I had some bad things. The best and the worst. In other words, I had a life. It’s been a struggle for me because I had a chance to be white and refused. Everyone carries around his own monsters. [on the free-basing incident which set him on fire] When you are running down the street…. and you are on fire, people will get out of your way. I met the President. We in trouble. [At the 1977 Academy Awards] I’m here to explain why black people will never be nominated for anything. This show is going out to seventy-five million people – none of them black. We don’t even know how to vote. There’s 3,349 people in the voting thing and only two black people – Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte. We’re quitting. You’ll have to listen to Lawrence Welk.