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We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry because we didn’t think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.

Dick Gregory

You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We’re the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X.
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Oneself Secret Yourself
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
Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
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Nature Revolution
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
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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Dance Love War
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
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
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
If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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Democracy Goodness
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
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
The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
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Goodness Past
Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
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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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Black Deep Life Love Man Oppression Race Understand
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
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

We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry because we didn’t think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.

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We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry because we didn’t think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.

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