Dick Gregory - Nigger Quotes

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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

Dear Momma—Wherever you are, if ever you hear the word "nigger" again, remember they are advertising my book.

Dick Gregory

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.

Dick Gregory