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 GREGORYMy 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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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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Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don’t have the ability to be lovable.
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If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
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Did you know that in New Orleans they still have brown bag parties? What’s that, you ask? You and I go to a party, and when we get to the door, there’s a brown bag hanging down from the ceiling, and if our skin is darker than the brown bag, we can’t go in.
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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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Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.
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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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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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I wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
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Every door of racial prejudice I can kick down, is one less door that my children have to kick down.
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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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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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When you’ve got something really good, you don’t have to force it on people. They will steal it!
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It’s cool to be healthy.
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Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
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