Godfrey Quotes

#1. You've got to keep moving, keep creating.

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#2. Customs is punishment for those who travel. This will teach you for traveling to our country!

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#3. Want to shut a racist white guy's mouth. Put him around Super human athletic black dudes.

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#4. I think that sometimes I've been a little too nice. I think you have to have a balance. When you're too nice people take you for granted, they take you for a fool I think.

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#5. You know, the energy I think I was just born with. I think I was just always like that as I kid; I was always real energetic.

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#6. I was always the class clown, although many teachers view the class clown as a trouble maker. But I always had good grades, so the only thing my parents were told was that while I was intelligent, I talked too much.

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#7. If Mandela were a comedian, I bet he would never get mad at a heckler, he'd give him or her a hug.

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#8. The one thing you don't want to be is a sucky clean comic. I hate sucky clean comics! It's like Christian rock, bro. I'd rather listen to gospel and Christian rock. That's cheating!

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#9. I am not a model the camera just went off by itself

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#10. But some people want attention so bad they want you to see them angry at you.

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#11. The X-Games - I watch that; I'm not impressed. That's white dudes' desperation. They're running out of sports. They gotta find something that black dudes won't touch.

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#12. I want to be able to go into a room of aliens and be funny. I don't care who it is. I don't ever want to limit myself to a type of comedy because I don't want to be stuck. I want to be able to make anybody laugh and that's the key for me.

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#13. Even if you get a joke right you've done it a thousand times and sometimes there's times where it just doesn't work or someone doesn't agree with you. And I want to show that. I have had more hecklers because that's part of comedy is arguments, you know?

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#14. Hey man! I'm a comedian but I'm not a clown.

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#15. I love when they show the really gay prisoner in prison shows. He's the cutest inside but you know on the street he would be the ugliest.

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#16. I observe everything around me and when something hits me and it's funny, that's what I talk about. I'm a more observational kind of comic.

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#17. I used to think it was corny to be in love but actually it's corny to lose an awesome woman! Real talk.

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#18. I would say, as far as heckling, there's benign and there's malignant; like tumors man. Sometimes you get really nice hecklers. I'd say percentage-wise it's only about 10 to 20 percent the whole year.

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#19. Be happy with your stereotype. Asians - that's the stereotype I want. Being the smartest person in the world? You're the smartest, what are you complaining about? You know what I get? 'Wassup?

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#20. I'm still trying to understand the wearing off high heels at the airport.

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#21. When my woman kisses me I start dancing like James Brown. Ow! I Feel Good!

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#22. I can always create new material. That's something I can control.

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#23. Tell your girlfriend or wife you love them everyday. Like I do!

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#24. But there's times when I like to find the strange angles to something. People go, 'I heard a lot of jokes like that, but that's one of the most interesting takes I heard.' That's what I try to do.

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#25. Immigrants have been coming here for a long time. The Americans that are afraid of others coming were immigrants once themselves, so they have a lot of nerve. We have a lot of nerve as a country. The only people that should have xenophobia are Native Americans. Everyone else should shut up.

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#26. I use profanity because I like profanity, but I'm not vulgar. Big difference. I love profanity because I really think profanity is cool.

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#27. My black friends in America don't believe me. I said, 'Dude, I'm Nigerian American.' 'Word? We thought you were, like, regular black.' What the hell is 'regular black'? Crayola coming out with colors I don't know about?

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#28. I went to University of Illinois. Big school. 35,000 students. 800 black ... I was the only black in every class. Hard to be absent.

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#29. I think there are people living in Walmart dressed up as employees.

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#30. I think the audience should take away that it's okay to be smart, it's okay to be funny and well-learned. You can be from academia and be funny; you don't have to be an idiot.

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#31. That's what I take pride in in my stand-up, is changing things up. Being special.

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#32. I'm forever a part of pop culture.

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#33. I wish people would understand that comedy is an art form, and that the same thing that makes a Picasso painting is the same thing that gives Bill Cosby the ability to do an hour of comedy on his kids.

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