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And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.

Dick Gregory

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
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
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
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
Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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Goodness Laugh Myself People Value
To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
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Music Myself Poet
The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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Acceptance Difficult People Truth
The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
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Goodness Past
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’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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Career Laughter Myself
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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Eat Food Myself Oppression People Right Time
I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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Home Myself People
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
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
We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry because we didn’t think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.
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Book Greatness History Thinking Victory Win
It’s cool to be healthy.
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Health Instagram Captions One Liner

And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.

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And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.

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