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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.

Dick Gregory

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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It’s cool to be healthy.
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Health Instagram Captions One Liner
Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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Attachment Deep Loss Rich
There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
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Limitation Yourself
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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To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
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Music Myself Poet
I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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Deep Education Home Learning Myself Shame
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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Black Myself People Right Scare See
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
I used to get letters saying, ‘I didn’t know black children and white children were the same.’
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Black Children Myself Oppression
In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago, it’s a sport.
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Duty Place Right Sports Vote
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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Eat Food Myself Oppression People Right Time
Even 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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Black Deep Life Love Man Oppression Race Understand
I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp – just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.
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Black Enjoyment Man Myself
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
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

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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