I used to get letters saying, ‘I didn’t know black children and white children were the same.’
DICK GREGORYWhen I go through the airport and see white women walking through the airport barefooted, like athlete’s feet don’t exist, there’s something wrong.
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When I go through the airport and see white women walking through the airport barefooted, like athlete’s feet don’t exist, there’s something wrong.
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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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I personally would say that the quickest way to wipe out a group of people is to put them on a soul food diet.
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I personally believe breathatarianism to be the highest mode of human living breathing in pure air, absorbing the direct light and energies of the sun, bathing in pure water I look at the obituaries every morning and ain’t nobody listed but you eaters.
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When I was a boy, I was taught never to use insulting expressions like, ‘I’ve been gypped,’ or, ‘He welshed on the deal.’
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If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
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The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
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And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.
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I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn’t have what I wanted.
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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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I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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You know, I always say white is not a color, white is an attitude, and if you haven’t got trillions of dollars in the bank that you don’t need, you can’t be white.
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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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Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.
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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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