"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 stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no."

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Dick Gregory

#Law Quotes #White Quotes #Black Quotes

“You have to let the world speak to you and then you speak, you know, so I'm in that moment now where I'm finding the world's voice.”
“I sure don't think of myself as a fat person, just someone who carries extra weight. I've never seen anyone on the DL with pulled fat.”
“anybody who drinks seriously is poor: so poor, poor, extra poor, me.”
“Meditation is culture.”
“If we do not wish to fight, we can prevent the enemy from engaging us even though the lines of our encampment be merely traced out on the ground. All we need to do is to throw something odd and unaccountable in his way.”
“For you know that I myself am a labyrinth, where one easily gets lost.”
“I remember in 1980 or 1981 looking at a list of people who had made a lot of money in the computer industry and thinking, Wow, that's amazing. But I never thought I'd be on that list. It's clear I was wrong. I'm on the list, at least temporarily.”
“I'm not as far along as Jack Nicklaus was at this age, but I'm trying.”

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