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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. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#american citizen #athlete #citizen #class #either

Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#hath #hell #liberal #like #scorned

I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#eleven #finally #i #integrated #restaurant

I went to Ethiopia, and it dawned on me that you can tell a starving, malnourished person because they've got a bloated belly and a bald head. And I realized that if you come through any American airport and see businessmen running through with bloated bellies and bald heads, that's malnutrition, too. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#american #any #bald #because #bellies

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. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#back #blood #born #brown #buy

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. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#death #ever #her #jesus #lady

To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#comedian #great #like #me #musician

I found out that you could audition by sending a picture of yourself and some information to Newsround. ↗

— Rupert Grint

#could #found #i #information #out

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. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#athlete #exist #feet #go #i

My boyhood saw Greek islands floating over Harvard Square. ↗