There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
DICK GREGORYNo 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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If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
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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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I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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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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Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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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.
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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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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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When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It’s not enough, but it helps.
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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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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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They told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.
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The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
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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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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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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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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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There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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When I was a boy, I was taught never to use insulting expressions like, ‘I’ve been gypped,’ or, ‘He welshed on the deal.’
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If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol, and caffeine off the market for six days, they’d have to bring out the tanks to control you.
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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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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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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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