Dick Gregory - Man Quotes

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Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.

Dick Gregory

If a man calls me a nigger, he is calling me something I am not. The nigger exists only in his own mind; therefore his mind is the nigger. I must feel sorry for such a man.

Dick Gregory

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.

Dick Gregory

Let me tell you about this daughter of mine.... She said, "I don't believe in Santa Claus." I said, "What in the world you mean you don't believe in Santa Claus?...Why?" She said, "Because you know darn good and well there ain't no white man coming into our neighborhood after midnight."

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Love is man's natural endowment, but he doesn't know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power.

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Those of us who weren't destroyed got stronger, got calluses on our souls. And now we're ready to change a system, a system where a white man can destroy a black man with a single word. Nigger.

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