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Black Quotes by Dick Gregory
- America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misuse a household pet.
- 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,…
- I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black…
- I used to get letters saying, 'I didn't know black children and white children were the same.'
- I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was during the civil…
- 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…
- 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,…
More Black Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery… — Teresa of Avila
- Hades raised an eyebrow. When he sat forward in his throne, shadowy faces appeared in the folds of his black robes, faces… — Rick Riordan
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black. — Charles Barkley
- In a completely integrated unit where you'd have white soldiers, particularly from southern states, serving under black noncommissioned officers or officers... I… — Omar N. Bradley
- Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. — Theodor Adorno