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
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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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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Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don’t have the ability to be lovable.
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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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I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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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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To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
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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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Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.
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One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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I wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
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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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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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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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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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