Bill Cosby
Bill Cosby
William Henry "Bill" Cosby, Jr.is an American former stand-up comedian, actor, author and singer-songwriter...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth12 July 1937
CityPhiladelphia, PA
CountryUnited States of America
sex children father
Children today know more about sex than I or my father did.
teacher mistake school
When I decided that I wanted to go to college, I wanted to be a school teacher for 7th and 8th grade boys because I felt that was an important time for them. I had gone astray at that point in my life and really wanted to help keep them from making the same mistake I had made.
teacher children school
I want to get violence - I want schools to start from K through 12 to just every day have teachers understand that they don't want to talk about anything that is violent, and they want to explain to the children how bad violence is and how behavior - violent behavior, is something that they really should not practice and think about.
cutting cities america
All around the United States of America - in the cities and the counties - our public education is suffering and has been suffering. Cuts, cuts, cuts.
college trying wonderful
College was a wonderful time - except, of course, when it was trying to teach you things.
white boards board-of-education
Brown versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.
people trying helping
Sometimes you try to help people, and it backfires on you, and then they try to take advantage of you.
children grandparent
Grandparents are God's gifts to children.
children fatherhood helping
Fatherhood is helping your children learn English as a foreign language.
father ships crew
A father has to do everything in his power to keep a tight ship, even though he knows the crew would like to send him away in a dinghy.
unique misunderstood use
Now, Richard Pryor was unique. Many misunderstood his humor. He lit up the hallway, but they didn't understand his use of profanity. He didn't use it just to be using it; he used it in the context of his satire.
home color challenges
Racial humor was about 35% of my act when I first started. But I realized that it was a crutch. What brought it home was when another comedian said to me, 'If you changed color tomorrow, you wouldn't have any material.' He meant it as a put-down, but I took it as a challenge.
men may spite
In spite of what Thomas Jefferson wrote, all men may be created equal, but not to all women.
boys old-neighborhood pulse
In my old neighborhood, a boy stopped playing when he began to lose his pulse. And then he became the referee.