When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.
From Dick Gregory
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.
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.
If it wasn't for Abe Lincoln, I'd still be on the open market.
I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted.
Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can't afford it.
I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.
Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.
Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.
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