I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn’t have what I wanted.
DICK GREGORYBeing white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don’t know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.
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I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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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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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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No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That’s already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.
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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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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
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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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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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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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People with high blood pressure, diabetes – those are conditions brought about by lifestyle. If you change the lifestyle, those conditions will leave.
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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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