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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.

Dick Gregory

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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Black Dance Law Sing Talk Writing
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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Existence Foot Myself Woman
I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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Home Myself People
Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.
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Difference Grow Up Mindset Poor
When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It’s not enough, but it helps.
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Enough Father Goodness Help Mom Yourself
There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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Force God Live Willing Yourself
I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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Deep Education Home Learning Myself Shame
If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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Democracy Goodness
I used to get letters saying, ‘I didn’t know black children and white children were the same.’
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Black Children Myself Oppression
I personally would say that the quickest way to wipe out a group of people is to put them on a soul food diet.
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Food Myself People Quick Soul
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
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
It’s cool to be healthy.
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Health Instagram Captions One Liner
I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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Career Laughter Myself
They told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.
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Myself Pregnant Woman
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

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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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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