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 GREGORYRevolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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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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To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
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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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Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
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Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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I wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
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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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I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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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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Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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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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When you’ve got something really good, you don’t have to force it on people. They will steal it!
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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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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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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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