#lack

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. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#am #backside #bigots #black #enjoying

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

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

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. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#anybody #before #black #folks #history

I couldn't wait to be, you know, a Black Panther. Of course they wouldn't let me join. ↗

— David Alan Grier

#course #i #join #know #me

That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not how yellow my skin is, how short I am, how tall or fat or thin; It's by my character. ↗

— Pam Grier

#black #character #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement

Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then. ↗

— Pam Grier

#african american #american #black #concise #dark

It took about six years to get the Black Lung stuff. It didn't come just instantly. Sometimes, I see lobby groups, today, upset because they work the whole session and nothing happens. ↗

— Richard Grimes

#because #black #come #get #groups

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#little #live #makes #marks #pulp

If black people mistrust white people, they are mistrusting racism, and that is appropriate. ↗

— Jasmine Guy

#black #mistrust #people #racism #white