Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic Page #3

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an audience as you could get.

And they weren't sure

they were going to go along.

That's how radical Richie was.

I think he was very conscious

of what he was doing.

Richard knew how to drop

atomic bomb words.

He knew that words were powerful.

They accidentally shoot more N*ggers

out here than any place in the world.

Every time you pick up a paper,

"N*gger accidentally shot

in the ass."

How do you accidentally shoot

a N*gger six times in the chest?

"Well, my gun fell

and just went crazy."

He was fully blown as Richie Pryor.

It was astonishing.

His point of view, his attack

on the culture from every version.

No holds barred.

Not thinking about a career.

Not thinking about what you have

to do to be right and wrong.

He wasn't a civil rights leader,

like you would say Louie Newton

or Martin Luther King.

But he was somebody who inculcated

the spirit of the movement.

Richard, in Berkeley, was, you know,

a lovable person.

But Berkeley's not the world.

You had to meet the monster.

You had to go through Hollywood.

# Where do I go

when this world forsakes me

# Who do I turn to

when they put me down?

# You are my hope when they all

can't stop me

# You're my beginning, my middle

My end... #

I met Richard Pryor in 1972.

At an upscale garden party

in Beverly Hills.

I asked him what he was doing,

and he said, "Nothing."

I said,

"I know you're doing nothing,

"but what are you working at?"

He said, "I'm not working

at anything. I'm unemployed."

I said, "How long have you been

unemployed?" He said, "A long time."

I said, "Really?

Who's managing you?" "Nobody."

"Whose agenting you?" "Nobody."

He didn't really have any place

to go at that time,

so he took a job,

doing punch-up lines for Red Fox.

I thought, "This is not right."

So, I said to Richie,

"Let's record an album."

Don't ever marry a white woman

in California.

A lot of you sisters are probably,

"Don't marry a white woman anyway,

N*gger."

CHEERING:

"Why should you be happy?"

Sisters look at you

like you killed your mama

when you're out with a white woman.

You can't laugh

that sh*t off either.

"She's not with me."

Richard said, "Look, I know that you

like it and I know that I like it.

"Black people don't like this."

I said, "Richard, I can't

answer that. I don't know."

He said, "Let's hope so.

If not, we're both out of business."

I don't know how you feel

about the title of your album,

but I find it difficult to say.

You do.

Most white people,

it's hard to say "crazy".

No, the title. You tell them the

title of the album. I can't say that.

The title of the album is

"That N*gger's Crazy."

See now, you can just say that.

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