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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.

Dick Gregory

Every door of racial prejudice I can kick down, is one less door that my children have to kick down.
DICK GREGORY

Children Oppression Race
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
Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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Goodness Laugh Myself People Value
Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don’t have the ability to be lovable.
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Ability Danger Deep Love Yourself
When you’ve got something really good, you don’t have to force it on people. They will steal it!
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Force Goodness People Yourself
Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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Education Knowledge Wisdom
I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
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Believe Darkness Myself
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
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Happiness Learning Oneself People Secret
Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.
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Fight Job Yourself
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.
DICK GREGORY

Black Deep Life Love Man Oppression Race Understand
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
The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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Acceptance Difficult People Truth
When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.
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Funny Lost Money Myself Weapon
It’s cool to be healthy.
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Health Instagram Captions One Liner
I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
DICK GREGORY

Home Myself People
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
When you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.
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Justice Right Rise Truth
My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
DICK GREGORY

Belief Explanation Myself
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
If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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Democracy Goodness
The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
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Goodness Past
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 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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Deal Expression Insult Man Myself
When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It’s not enough, but it helps.
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Enough Father Goodness Help Mom 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
It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn’t stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.
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Black Dance Law Sing Talk Writing
Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
DICK GREGORY

Food Mom

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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