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Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic Page #6
a motherf***er now.
Richard was very intense...
..about his personal pride. And
he didn't care where it took him.
There was a huge benefit for gay
pride at the Hollywood Bowl.
A lot of performers
were at the Hollywood Bowl
to lend their support,
Richard being one of them.
Richie came on, and the audience
was waiting for him.
Great applause, and he said,
"You know,
"I've sucked some cock myself." That
was the first thing that he said.
I thought, "Uh-oh. Here we go." But
the audience, of course, cheered.
And then he went on to just
really go a little nuts.
They wanted to shock,
because it was the truth.
And it was quiet.
It was quiet. You could hear a rat
pissing on cotton in Georgia.
I mean, it was real quiet.
Y'all can just kiss my rich,
black ass.
And walked off. So...
Centre stage. Hello, everybody.
I'm terribly embarrassed
and I don't know what to
say about what just happened.
But I do think...
They stood up.
Booing, hissing, throwing some
chairs.
It was the scariest event
that I've ever been at.
Everyone in showbusiness was there.
I thought, "We're never going
to hear from him again."
I got a call from David Franklin,
and he said, "Ce-Ce-Cecil,"
cos he stuttered.
He said,
"R-Richard f***ed up l-last night."
So I drove over to Richard's house,
and nobody was in the house.
I went out, and he was
sitting by a swimming pool.
He was smoking a cigarette,
and he had a scotch
and an orange juice
and vodka was his drink.
And I said, "Man, what happened?"
He said, "Man, f*** it, man.
He said, "I just told them to kiss
my ass." "But why?"
He said,
"If that's the way they want me,
"I don't have a career
any damn way."
It wasn't Hollywood that beat him
in any way.
He defeated himself
with what his bad habits were.
Pryor went to court
because of an incident
at his home on New Year's Day.
He's been charged with two counts
of assault with a deadly weapon
and one count of felony
malicious mischief.
I don't want to never see no more
police in my life.
At my house.
Taking my ass to jail.
For killing my car.
I shot the motor. The motor fell
out of the motherf***er.
The motor say, "F*** it."
Then the police came.
I went into the house.
Cos they got Magnums too.
And they don't kill
cars... they kill nigg-ah.
You know, Richard Pryor
was always in the news.
Richard Pryor has a heart attack.
He ran into these tragedies
one after another.
But you also knew that three months
would go by or six months
would go by or a year
would go by, and then
he was going to bring
this experience back to you.
Anyone here ever had a heart attack?
Them motherfuckers hurt.
I'm not bullshitting, man.
I was walking in the front yard.
I was just walking along,
and something said, "Don't breathe."
I said, "Huh?"
"You heard me, motherf***er.
"I said, 'Don't breathe.'"
"OK, I won't breathe."
"Then shut the f*** up, then." "OK.
"Don't kill me." "Get on one knee
and prove it." "I'm on one knee."
"Thinking about dying now, ain't you?"
"Yeah, I'm thinking about dying."
when you was eating all that pork."
We was on the road
and seen Marie Carter
every day while she was dying.
We'd do the shows,
go check on his grandmother.
She said, "You watch out for my boy."
She was dying, and basically they
said, "You have to get here now."
So we rushed there.
We went into her hospital room.
I remember she touched
his camel-hair coat.
And said, "That's blue azure.
"Is it warm enough?"
And he said,
"Yes, Mom, it's warm enough."
We went back to the hotel,
and she died a few hours later.
Like my grandmother, Marie,
used to say, "They can kill you,
"but they can't eat you."
I love you, Grandmother.
Wherever you are.
She was his conduit to reality,
to the world.
To everything that tethered him
to earth.
And I really think that that's
when he started to come apart.
Dr Al Canning came
and told Richard and he said,
"When you finish going
through this...
"..go to Africa. You need to find
out something about yourself."
MUSIC:
"Stand Up"by Lee Fields and Sugarmen & Co
# Stand up
# Let's get it right
# Stand up
# Let's keep it tight. #
I went home to the motherland.
I was going to find my roots.
700 million black people - not
one of them motherfuckers knew me.
I looked in every
phone book in Africa.
I didn't find one goddamn Pryor.
What he saw was black people
who were walking around.
Everybody was professional, everybody
had their own lives and purpose.
And he felt really at home
on that land.
I was sitting in the hotel,
and a voice said to me, he said,
"Look around,"
said, "do you see any n*ggers?"
I said, "No." "You know
why? Cos there aren't any."
And it made me think,
"Oh, my God. I've been wrong.
I said, "I ain't going to never
call another black man n*gger."
APPLAUSE:
He really had this epiphany
that he was never going to use
the word again.
When he came back, he said,
"I'm not going to use that no more."
And he stuck with it.
When he went to Africa,
the word had no meaning.
But on the streets of Detroit,
He'd tell the same joke,
just take n*gger out.
"Oh, he's not funny no more."
So, the punchline
was n*gger for y'all?
And that bothered him that
some people just wouldn't elevate.
He was at such a point
of a growth spurt.
And he didn't want the job.
You know, I'm a f***ing artist. I do
what I do. Leave me the f*** alone.
And shortly thereafter
freebase was introduced.
At the time,
everybody was doing cocaine.
We were snorting cocaine.
A lot changed when everybody
switched from snorting cocaine
to freebasing cocaine.
Somehow, everybody knew that
this was a really bad thing,
that turned dark.
And he found freebase.
And after two weeks of watching him
get really addicted to this stuff,
I moved out, because it was clear
the drug had moved in and it had
become his lover, his everything.
And I didn't exist any more.
Richard wasn't an addict.
He was a flat-out full-blown junkie.
four days but be drinking booze.
Be clean for a week
but just snorting a little coke.
So he was not honest with himself.
June 9th, 1980.
Richard had walked off the set
of Stir Crazy a few days earlier.
The freebase had been escalating.
He was not able to stop.
Richard was so coked out that he
began withdrawing large sums
of money out of the bank.
And I'm talking like 500,000,
100,000, another 250,000.
He was hiding it at his house.
Rashan had called.
He was calling and recruiting several
people that he felt were close
enough to Richard to come to the
house.
To rescue Richard to try to get
Richard to stop.
Richard was in a very scary place.
Richard didn't just have
a couple of ounces of cocaine.
of cocaine on his bed.
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