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Every door of racial prejudice I can kick down, is one less door that my children have to kick down.

Dick Gregory

I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn’t have what I wanted.
DICK GREGORY

Myself Result Wait
I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
DICK GREGORY

Believe Darkness Myself
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

Dance Love War
Every door of racial prejudice I can kick down, is one less door that my children have to kick down.
DICK GREGORY

Children Oppression Race
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
There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
DICK GREGORY

Limitation Yourself
I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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Home Myself People
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
Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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Education Knowledge Wisdom
If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
DICK GREGORY

Myself Poor
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
Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
DICK GREGORY

Angry Hell
The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
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Goodness Past
Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
DICK GREGORY

Goodness Laugh Myself People Value
Even though he understood the depths of racism and black oppression, Ali lived his life as a free man—a free loving and lovable man.
DICK GREGORY

Black Deep Life Love Man Oppression Race Understand
If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
DICK GREGORY

Democracy Goodness

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