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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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To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
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Music Myself Poet
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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Duty Place Right Sports Vote
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
If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
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Myself Poor
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
I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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Career Laughter Myself
Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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Attachment Deep Loss Rich
Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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Home Place
My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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Believe Explanation Myself Philosophy
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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Doctor Race Sick Understand 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
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
If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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Democracy Goodness
Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
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Food Mom
Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can’t afford it.
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Gratitude People Rich Thankful Worth
Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.
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Fight Job Yourself
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
There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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Force God Live Willing Yourself
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
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
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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Beginning Forget Marriage Politics Promise Relationship
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
The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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Acceptance Difficult People Truth
Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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Angry Hell
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
I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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Home Myself People
I believe young voters will either vote for Obama or not vote at all. So the problem is not Obama the problem is the system. If you think about how mess up this country is, most folk really don’t have choices.
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Believe Choice Mess Myself Problem Vote

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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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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