You know, I always say white is not a color, white is an attitude, and if you haven’t got trillions of dollars in the bank that you don’t need, you can’t be white.
DICK GREGORYLove is very dangerous if you just have love and don’t have the ability to be lovable.
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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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When you’ve got something really good, you don’t have to force it on people. They will steal it!
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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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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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It’s cool to be healthy.
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Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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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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They told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.
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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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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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Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.
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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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Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.
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Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
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My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn’t a Christian, she would stomp you to death.
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