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Quotes from Famous Peorians
RICHARD PRYOR
Interviewer:
Can you think back to the very first time you ever got up in front
of anybody and performed, whether it was doing something funny or singing
or performing in a school or church play?
Richard Pryor:
We had a whorehouse when I was little back in Peoria, Illinois,
and my grandmother gave me a birthday party. It was a big house and there
was a ballroom with a piano that had a drum in it. It had a piano roll and it
played by itself. I got up and made a little speech on my birthday about one of
the whores there in the house. It went something like “Mr. Bull Dike, Mr. Bull
Dozer.” That was my first poem, and I was actin’ like I made a mistake when I
said “Mr. Bull Di--, I mean Dozer.” I was about seven.
Richard Pryor
(1940-2005)
Touch of Velvet Magazine October 1977
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