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 GREGORYLast 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.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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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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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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I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp – just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.
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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.
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There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can’t afford it.
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It’s cool to be healthy.
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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 most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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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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There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
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I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn’t it either. I’m going to be an American Citizen. First-class.
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