Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
DICK GREGORYEven though he understood the depths of racism and black oppression, Ali lived his life as a free man—a free loving and lovable man.
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Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can’t afford it.
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Every door of racial prejudice I can kick down, is one less door that my children have to kick down.
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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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When you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.
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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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It’s cool to be healthy.
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Makes you wonder. When I left St. Louis, I was making five dollars a night. Now I’m getting $5,000 a week — for saying the same things out loud I used to say under my breath.
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People with high blood pressure, diabetes – those are conditions brought about by lifestyle. If you change the lifestyle, those conditions will leave.
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I wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
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Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
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Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.
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When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the evening – there wasn’t no 24-hour news.
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There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
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You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We’re the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X.
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If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
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Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don’t have the ability to be lovable.
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I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn’t it either. I’m going to be an American Citizen. First-class.
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No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That’s already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.
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When you’ve got something really good, you don’t have to force it on people. They will steal it!
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To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
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Just being a Negro doesn’t qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.
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They told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.
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I never thought I’d see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we were in Mississippi.
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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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