I used to get letters saying, ‘I didn’t know black children and white children were the same.’
DICK GREGORYHell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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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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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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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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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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It’s cool to be healthy.
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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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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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When you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.
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Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.
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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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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
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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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