Richard Pryor photographed by Michael Ochs | 1976

“I’ll be in Detroit and I’ll be jogging in the morning, police. Me and Rashaan will be two Black men jogging. We’re not robbing anything. Please don’t shoot us accidentally as we’re jogging the streets of Detroit. You have to announce these things, you know, or you’re in trouble.”

- Richard Pryor, Tonight Show, May 4, 1977

Richard Pryor, 1986