Bernie Mac Quotes

It was rough being dark. I got heat from my own people more than anyone else. I remember going to my mom and saying, 'Why am I so black?' And she said, 'Because I'm black. You just gotta always work harder than the average bear.'

Bernie Mac

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 5, 1957 - August 9, 2008

Topics

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The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

John Ruskin

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I like to sing with my cousins. We're in a church choir.

Tua Tagovailoa

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We have to bake labor provisions into the core of an agreement. TPP would do that. Under NAFTA, countries had to simply promise to uphold the laws of their own nations.

Tom Perez

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I make them all my girlfriends. I just express to each and every one of them every chance I get that I have millions of girlfriends, my fans.

Romeo Santos

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I always have a big idea. It pops up every two to three years.

Masayoshi Son

ThreeTwoAlwaysYearsUpBig

I came from a poor family. My father was from Glasgow, Scotland; my mother's brothers were brakemen on the railroad. We didn't have anything but mush for breakfast.

Mickey Rooney

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I've got too much respect for stand-ups to call myself one.

Johnny Vegas

RespectMyselfToo MuchCallGot

Anybody can reach anywhere from five to 15 million people weekly making a president look like an idiot, as I did back then, or Tina Fey did with Sarah Palin... You're always preaching to the choir one way or the other.

Chevy Chase

PeopleReachIdiotYouLookBack

I try to put as little stuff into my hair as I can, which tends to be the best for it.

Connie Britton

BestHairI CanTryLittleStuff

Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?

Augustus Hare

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So what this is is us, our personalities refined down on to a stage performance. In other words, the way we play is the end product of the way we live - we live in the cities, you see.

Alice Cooper

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My family is well, and that's what's important.

Penny Marshall

FamilyImportantWell

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