Friday, October 02, 2009
A Message From The King Of Deprarious

Looking back, Richard Pryor explains his freebasing habit had fuelled his paranoia to unparalleled heights.
"I left all my guns right out in the open so when the boogey man bust in my house... he could see 'em. I thought everyone was stealing from me. I continued to smoke until I ran out of coke. I was suffering serious dementia. I was miserable. Alone. Frightened. Then I thought. 'Okay, I'll set myself on fire."
Dousing himself in cognac Pryor set himself alight, dived through the bedroom window and ran down the street. "You know what I noticed. When you run down the street on fire, people get out of your way."
Yezzir.

From a nice 2005 interview with Pryor here.

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posted by Nihilist Loves Hate, Hates Everything at 10/02/2009 06:31:00 PM 0 comments
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