Every door of racial prejudice I can kick down, is one less door that my children have to kick down.
DICK GREGORYI personally would say that the quickest way to wipe out a group of people is to put them on a soul food diet.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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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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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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Makes you wonder. When I left St. Louis, I was making five dollars a night. Now I’m getting $5,000 a week — for saying the same things out loud I used to say under my breath.
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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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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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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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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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They told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.
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I used to get letters saying, ‘I didn’t know black children and white children were the same.’
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I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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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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When you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.
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I personally believe breathatarianism to be the highest mode of human living breathing in pure air, absorbing the direct light and energies of the sun, bathing in pure water I look at the obituaries every morning and ain’t nobody listed but you eaters.
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