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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

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Myself Pregnant Woman
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Enough Father Goodness Help Mom Yourself
If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
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Myself Poor
There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
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Limitation Yourself
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
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Darkness Oppression Ourselves Skin Togetherness Yourself
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Alcohol Control Yourself
I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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Career Laughter Myself
The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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Acceptance Difficult People Truth
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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Attitude Money Need Yourself
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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Death Live Mom Myself Yourself
Every door of racial prejudice I can kick down, is one less door that my children have to kick down.
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Children Oppression Race
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
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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Appearance Deep Judgement Person Spirit Yourself
Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don’t have the ability to be lovable.
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Ability Danger Deep Love Yourself
Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
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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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