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White Quotes by Dick Gregory
- 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…
- I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
- 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 waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted.
- I used to get letters saying, 'I didn't know black children and white children were the same.'
- When I go through the airport and see white women walking through the airport barefooted, like athlete's feet don't exist, there's something wrong.
- 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…
- Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: 'We don't serve colored…
- 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,…
- Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.
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- I would rather have a living smile from one I know is true than tears round my casket when this world I… — Superman
- You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black. — Charles Barkley
- I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House… — Neil Armstrong
- I believe if the white and colored people could get together and be let alone, they would understand each other and consequently… — Josephine Baker
- It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine… — Russell Baker
- The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant… — Dave Barry
- Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. — Theodor Adorno