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I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#had #hate #home #i #learned

The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them. ↗

— Wayne Gretzky

#biggest #biggest difference #difference #edmonton #i

Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#enlarged #longer #once #possibilities #relationship

Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#being #expert #just #makes #medicine

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. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#civil #civil war #dance #especially #love

Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#hath #hell #liberal #like #scorned

I used to get letters saying, 'I didn't know black children and white children were the same.' ↗

— Dick Gregory

#children #get #i #know #letters

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

It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn't stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#comics #could #dance #law #nightclubs