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Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: ‘We don’t serve colored people here.’ I said: ‘that’s all right, I don’t eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.

Dick Gregory

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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Athlete Citizenship Greatness Myself Wrong
Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.
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Fight Job Yourself
Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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Attachment Deep Loss Rich
In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don’t know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.
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Deep Evil Ourselves See Sun Yourself
If all you can do is judge a person by their appearance because you don’t have the spirit to judge someone from within, you’re in trouble.
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Appearance Deep Judgement Person Spirit Yourself
Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.
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Difference Grow Up Mindset Poor
There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
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Limitation Yourself
I wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
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Country Friendship Mindset Myself Pay
Did you know that in New Orleans they still have brown bag parties? What’s that, you ask? You and I go to a party, and when we get to the door, there’s a brown bag hanging down from the ceiling, and if our skin is darker than the brown bag, we can’t go in.
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Darkness Oppression Ourselves Skin Togetherness Yourself
You hear entertainers all the time, saying, ‘If I couldn’t get paid for this, I’d do it for free.’ When’s the last time you ever heard a business person say, ‘If I couldn’t get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I’d do it for free?’
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Career Difference Freedom Time Yourself
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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Existence Foot Myself Woman
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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Break Morning Myself Time
They told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.
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Myself Pregnant Woman
If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol, and caffeine off the market for six days, they’d have to bring out the tanks to control you.
DICK GREGORY

Alcohol Control Yourself
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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Change Health Life People
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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Myself Result Wait

Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: ‘We don’t serve colored people here.’ I said: ‘that’s all right, I don’t eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.

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Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: ‘We don’t serve colored people here.’ I said: ‘that’s all right, I don’t eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.

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