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.
DICK GREGORYHell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
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I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
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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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I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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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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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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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.
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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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The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
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I used to get letters saying, ‘I didn’t know black children and white children were the same.’
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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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One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
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I personally believe breathatarianism to be the highest mode of human living breathing in pure air, absorbing the direct light and energies of the sun, bathing in pure water I look at the obituaries every morning and ain’t nobody listed but you eaters.
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Every door of racial prejudice I can kick down, is one less door that my children have to kick down.
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