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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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
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
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
Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.
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Fight Job Yourself
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
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
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.
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Black Myself People Right Scare See
America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don’t misuse a household pet.
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They told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.
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When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the evening – there wasn’t no 24-hour news.
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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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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
The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
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If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
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Myself Poor
The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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Acceptance Difficult People Truth
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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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
If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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Democracy Goodness
It’s cool to be healthy.
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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
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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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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Belief Explanation Myself
When you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.
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One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
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There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
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Limitation 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
Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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Attachment Deep Loss Rich

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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