Dick Gregory

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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.

• Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.

• Martin Luther King taught us all nonviolence. I was told to extend nonviolence to the mother and her calf.

• For Folks Who Eat (re cod liver oil, liver etc.) Eating liver out of a cow's body is like eating the filter out of a car.

• I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.

• Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.

• Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you would never collect the money. At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.

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