American - Comedian | October 12, 1932 -
Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother's milk.
Dick Gregory
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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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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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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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If it wasn't for Abe Lincoln, I'd still be on the open market.
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If you take 12 waters from the coconut - not the ones you buy in the store, although that's good - but the fresh coconuts, the little brown ones with the three eyes, if you take 12 of those within 24 hours, your blood will go back to the way it was when you were born.
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Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another.
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Every holiday on the calendar, I check in a hotel and fast - I don't eat, I don't drink, I don't talk.
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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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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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Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.
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