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Tracy Morgan

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“And sure enough, they start asking me questions and they asked me one question. They said, if you online support. And who do you want to make that decision? And I looked at my life. I said, my wife. Nobody else, a wife. Months later, look what happened. She said she's a good girl, strong woman, because she told the doctors no a few times. No, you're not putting a hole in my husband's neck. He's an entertainer. The next day I start breathing on my own. So she's a good girl, strong woman, strong woman, young, 18 years younger than me, but know what to do. And you don't know this world. This world got teeth and it bites. And it bites. And I'm glad I'm here. I'm glad my wife is over there. Glad my daughter, Mae May, Maven, She calls herself Mae Morgan. She may Morgan. She may. And my son is in college and everything is wonderful.”
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“She went Like getting that call at 6 in the morning. She still bit about that. The police called the media before they called her. I got hit at 12.59. She didn't know I was in a hospital in a coma until 6 o'clock in the morning. When she got there, I was in ICU. She thought she was going to get there and I was going to have a broken leg making the nurses laugh. They know they said Ms. Morgan, are you prepared? She said, then they took up the ICU and she flipped. She walked in the room and I asked her, I said, baby, how did I look? She said, Dad. Poke every bone in your face. Your face was about this big. You had staples and your head was wrapped, and you were laying there. I was dead. She stayed in there for two weeks with me. And what was weird was two months before the accident, I did my will. And I made her my health proxy.”
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“What inspires me Okay, I have one example of what inspired me. This is just an example. When I was in a wheelchair with both of my feet going like this, and I'm not knowing if I'm ever going to walk again, my daughter was 14 months old, and I seen her take her first two steps. That inspired me to get up and walk.”
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“That's all. Nobody's better than nobody You just gotta, there's only one way for me in my ideas to beat racism. You have to stay creative. You gotta stay creative. You got to really transcend that. Me personally, if you love me, I love you”
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“That's how fair. That's how strong my faith is. I don't have no worry. When you got worry, your faith is weak. You got to get on your knees and you got to just see, give me the strength. So, as long as my comedy is strong, my faith is strong.”
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“Could change, you got a one, two, you can change. Some people need that help, but you can change. That's the only thing that remains the same. It's change. Trust me, change is going to be here. Every year, the leaves fall, they grow. Genius architect, man.”
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“I went there and I came back. He loved. It's the most powerful thing on this planet, man. I'm not gonna never take that lightly no more. Nah.”
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“You were in a coma for eight to ten days. Can you survive? Trust me. Yeah. You're at Trust me, Oprah, people could judge it, look at it unless you face death, you can't tell me nothing. I got close to the guard than mostly everybody standing right here.”
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“To sit in here, pick up a rock, just life. Seeing him sitting there, seeing her sitting there, seeing them just life every day, every day, taking my daughter to the dance class, being with my lady, my wife who loved me, just chilling. I'm not mad at nobody. I'm not mad at nobody. Leaving stuff in God's hands”
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“Jurisdiction I don't know, man. It's like, I think they feel sorry for me. And Lauren Michael said, Tracy, they don't care about the funny. They just happy you here. And at that moment, I let go and I let God. I gave him everything. I'm leaving everything out there. They're giving me, and when I came out to do that monologue for the jet, I seen that people have bite names, they were just happy. I was so happy”
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“So I gotta believe. It's really literally like starting over. When I went back to Satan Alive, I was there for seven years. So it was like the first day. I was so nervous. I was so crazy. And it's like two shows. You do the dress show. You do the air show. And in between, but the dress show, I got in my own head. I wasn't fully recovered. He think I'm in an ambulance, something wrong with me. So in between dress and air, I went to Lauren Michaels. I said, Lauren, man, I don't know.”
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“Well, when we did Saturday Night Live, you were either going to see a wreck or you were going to see a miracle. We gave him the miracle”
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“You ain't supposed to be here. You ain't supposed to be doing no tour. And you ain't supposed to be hosting no Sat in Not 18 months later.”
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“And then you almost vegetated state, man. And it was difficult. I flipped out one time in the mall. My wife took me to the mall and I flipped out because people were just surrounding me. Like, even now, sometime where people see me as like looking at a ghost because it was so, everybody knew about that tragedy.”
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“I was trying to reboot, and that was frustrating. And my wife would have to put up with a lot of stuff sometimes. It was degrading at times when I first came home and making on yourself. And, you know, you come from this really confident. You know, to do comedy, you have to have confidence.”
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“You don't remember your life before When you take a bump on the head like that, you can see the scars. It was really bad. Was really bad on this side. You can see some of my brain broke every bone in my face. It's difficult.”
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“It was frustrating sometimes when you don't know what your name is Or you put a remote control right here and you don't know where it's at. You're looking right at it. It can get frustrating. What's frustrating? My wife didn't have an easy time. She's a strong woman. There were times I lashed out at her out of frustration because there was times.”
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“At my house a week later, and my FEMA is in the biggest bone in your body. It was in pieces, it was pulverized. And they put it back together, those doctors, Dr. Savian and all them. I have a rod in my leg that's going to be there forever, and I have nails in my leg and my kneecapped in my hip. And there are times where I'm on stage and I have to sit down. Because it might hurt a little bit, and I just sit down. I do my comedy for my seat sometimes”
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“Eddie Murphy, hopefully Mike Apps, and it's going to be an incredible story because like Jamie Fox did in Ray, he didn't do an impression. He channel Bra On Haron, which is a dog, we all know Richard had pretty dark life. So I just pray to God to ask me to give me the strength that I can do Mr. Fox justice because he was an icon.”
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“I mean the comedy guards. Richard, Lucia Ball, Jackie Gleason. As long as I'm doing it in the spirit of those people, I'm protected. I'm protected as long as I'm doing it in the spirit of those comedy guards before me. We all know Richard Pryor was the Messiah. I'm getting ready to play Red Fox in the Richard Prize story.”
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“On the way here, it was I was very excited to sit down and talk with you and tell where I'm going through. I know where I'm from. I know how I got there. I know most importantly where I'm headed. I'm good. I know I could have died in that accident. I would have been all right because I know where I'm going after this. Know where I'm going after this because I'm good. The people, I'm good to myself. I'ma leave. I'm staying righteous with it. Gotta go to the next level. You gotta continue. Keep, keep, keep, keep rising to the top. While my mind said, give it all you got, give it all you got.”
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“I knew when I was 11 years old, anything could have happened to me. On that train, anything. Somebody was with me. So I believe. I believe since then. I believe since then. If you don't have no, belief is a powerful, powerful thing. Belief is a powerful thing. If you believe in the wrong things, you're going to do wrong.”
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“Work. I go to work. I put it down and I know I've tapped into something that no other comedian can really talk about. I've been to the other side and I came back bearing gifts. These jokes I'm giving y'all the gifts.”
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“So it made me laugh. It made me laugh. And so I was really happy. I said, okay, the gift is intact. And now I'm on tour. Stand Ovation, 5,000 people, 6,000 people. Now when I come out on stage all the time, I get a standard innovation. That's just people's goodwill, being happy. But then you got a 20 second grace period. You got to go to work after that.”
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“There was so much trauma happening in my life that when I wrote it and all of these things made me laugh. And I remember that. If it makes me laugh, then it's funny.”
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“I didn't know I was worried about it, and I was really concerned because although I had my family with me, I know that was the gift he gave me. I was concerned about it. Was concerned about it.”
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“I told my wife that the other day. Something's different. The way I am of people, something's just different. I find myself saying, I love you 200 times a day to strangers. I don't care. I don't got to know you to love you. I love you. That's how we supposed to be as human beings. A positive ticket each other What we see sometime down here on the earth ain't no room for that up in heaven. In a room for”
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“I don't think there's any such word as coincidence in the Bible. Everything for a reason. We look at our lives, man. Look at the, listen, I remember this line and raising in the sun. God gave us dreams, but he gave us kids to make all those dreams worthwhile. I remember one night I was with Megan and Maven went sleeping between us and I just started crying. She said, what's wrong, baby? I said, if I have y'all, I don't know if I'd had the strength to come out that coma. Just don't know. I don't know if I would have to, I know I'm a fighter. I had to get back to her, that little girl, and my wife. Had to get back. I still got to finish the job, man.”
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“I was in the hospital, and my aunt, older woman. And I never did it again. I asked her, I said, why God let this happen to me? And she gave me that Morgan scow. She was gonna punch me in my face She says something I never did again. Don't question God She turned up back to me. I said, I saw the client, said, I'm sorry, Auntie. And she opened the window. She said, it's okay, baby. It's okay. Everything for a reason Everything for a reason. The reason why my daughter had a”
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“If I couldn't do that anymore, I don't know if I would want to live. I love my wife and my daughter, my kids, and all that, but that was that gift was given to me like Shirad said. All those hardships in my life. That was given to me to get past that.”
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“Would you be able to function? He gave me to survive all the hardships of my life. And I just feel like this. If I could make you laugh and forget about the things that you're going through for a minute, And I love that. That is your spirit.”
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“I always believe in that the things that I've done that I never wanted to do, like selling drugs. I never wanted to cross that boundary, but I had to eat. Non God did some forgive me, and I was given this talent. Gift to just make his children laugh. And I feel like you can't cut no deals with God, but if I always felt like if I'm... Make enough people laugh. Maybe he will forgive me. So I just try hard. Always been important to me to make those laugh, to conspire to make those laugh.”
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“Became Tracy Morgan. Became the star. And I started hanging out. And I started leaving my first wife at home. When I looked up emotionally, she was gone. It was over. So I know what it got me. I know what I lost. Because of it. And that's not gonna never happen again. God has blessed me with the opportunity to love again. My wife, Megan, and Maven, and I got a new family, and that's it. I'm never going backwards. It's just like when my dad was dying of AIDS on his bed, he looked at me. He said, well, end with you. It will end with you. He literally see poverty. It will end with you. You will break the generational curse. I said, yes, daddy. And he closed his eyes.”
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“It's like I stopped drinking. Stopped. It's willpower. That was it. I was getting in trouble where I had a bad relationship with alcohol. Two DUIs and Tina Fay one day and Alec Bowen was the second or 30 rock. He said, dude, you got to straighten up. On 30 Rock, you got to straighten up, and that was it, that was it. I know what it got me. I know what drinking and all that stuff got me.”
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“My first wife got thanked. And she was the one that was my first fans, and because of that responsibility. She took me out of that. She took me out of that Has sons, and that my sons and my wife, I said, yo, I can't do this. I remember one day she found it and she said, if you don't get this out of my house, I'm going to call the police on you, and that was end of it.”
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“In the 80s was rough. The 80s was rough. I'm a part of the lost generation. And my generation cracking AIDS took a whole generation out. Absolutely. So if you was either using it or you was selling it, either way, you got swept up in it and I got swept up in it.”
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“No, after the running away and all of that, Challas, I got to high school. And that's when I started to hone in on my comedy. Me and my friends on the football team joking on each other. And I learned then that if you made the girls laugh, you get the girls. And then when I got out of high school, it turned into a business.”
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“You did it in Vietnam He was funny. So I didn't really stay under my friends. I stood up. I hung out with my dad and his friends. The conversation between his friends and him were more stimulating. I couldn't learn nothing from my friends. They knew what I knew. But I could learn from my father and his friends. And he was funny. He was funny. I remember when he came to the projects, everybody came out because Jimmy's here. Jimmy's here. And he started snapping on people and ranking on people. And I remember him sitting me on his lap at four. He said, say, Tabubo, he said, say your mother this and that. And I said, I said, your mother. And everybody started laughing, and I like that. And that's how far back it went. It was my dad. So”
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“11 years old. I knew at that age, I knew right from wrong, I knew where I was. I knew I was in a tough situation at 11. I knew I didn't want to end up with statistic because at that age, people around me were dying my age. I was scared of that. I had fear, but I knew when I ran away from home. I know and I slept on the A train for two nights. I knew when I was sitting next to an older black woman to make like she was my mom. So nobody wouldn't mess with me. I knew when to sit across from the conductor. And I knew where to go to sleep in the alley. Only reason why I went to my dad's house is because kids kept making fun of me of wearing the same clothes. So I knocked on his door one day.”
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“From Vietnam. But he always took his responsibility, which was his kids. I mean, he picked up some bad habits. And I guess my mom did what she had to do. But he was always in our lives. And I remember just home.”
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“Everyone to be there. Help Jimmy Mack for Arty for Jeff for the two drivers Tyrone for all of And like I said, there are many different layers to forgiveness. You”
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“Are many layers of forgiveness? The first thing I had to do was learn to forgive myself. I couldn't do comedy anymore if I didn't. And that's when I knew I was ready to go back to work. What are you forgetting? What were you?”
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“For a whole year, I sat on my chair like this in my house, and my wife would tell you every day he looked at the wreckage. That was a part of my third piece. Just looking at it. I will look at it for hours.”
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“One thing, I'm never going to take that for granted again. I'm here. And when you look at it, the wreckage. You go, no way in the world I was supposed to walk away from that. Like a second chance.”
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“I feel like I tapped into something I feel like I tapped into humanity and love. I really feel like I tapped into it. It's like you tapped into it. And now people just love you. I mean, when I first came out, the hospital, the first time I ever left my house, it was just people crying, hugging me. And it was weird to me. But it felt good.”
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“I just felt that people love the comedy, but now I feel the goodwill and the love. Like people generally happy for me that I survived. They were really, really people. It's just like, thank God you're alive. People that you never know is incredible.”
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“See Uncle JN, John Hammond, Tina Fay, and John Stewart and Kimmel just to see them, Laura Michaels, just to see them, just happy to see me alive. Forget about the comedy. We're just happy you here. We're just happy you here. It's something. It's like humanity. It's like meeting someone or crossing paths with someone or knowing someone. Didn't they not hear no more”
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“I don't have to ever worry about that. But for me, I give it all back if Jimmy Mack could come back. Because I love him and I miss him. I miss him a lot. The rest of my career is dedicated to him.”
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“Not just by me, but for everyone that was in that car, even Jeremy Max family, and I know my friend, my buddy could rest in peace now.”
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“He was going three weeks, and then my wife leaned over to bed one day and said, We laid Jimmy the rest I live with that to this day because I asked him to be there. It was my tour. And I asked them all to be there and I thank God that Walmart stepped up. It took full responsibility.”
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