"But television handcuffs you, man."-- Bernie Mac

"Now everyone telling me what I CAN'T do, what I CAN say, what I SHOULD do, and asking, `Are blacks gonna be mad at you? Are whites gonna accept you?'" -- Bernie Mac

Born in Chicago, Bernard Jeffrey McCullough, Oct. 5, 1957--Saturday, August 9, 2008.

"Maybe You Never Cry Again," - Bernie Mac

"I came from a place where there wasn't a lot of joy."- Bernie Mac

"Woman believed in me." "She believed in me long before I believed." - Bernie Mac

"Wherever I am, I have to play."- Bernie Mac

Mac suffered from sarcoidosis, an inflammatory lung disease producing tiny lumps of cells in the body's organs. He recently was hospitalized and treated for pneumonia, which was not related to the disease.

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