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“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 people here.' "I said: 'that's all right, I don't eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.”
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“When you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.”
― Nigger
― Nigger
“Can you imagine what this old Negro had to go through? Can you imagine the day a Negro woman went to a black man and said: “Honey, I’m pregnant,” and both of them fell on their knees and prayed that their baby would be born deformed? Can you imagine what this Negro went through, hoping his baby is born crippled?
Because if he was born crippled, he would have less chance of being a slave and more chance of having freedom.”
― Nigger
Because if he was born crippled, he would have less chance of being a slave and more chance of having freedom.”
― Nigger
“Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.”
― Nigger: An Autobiography
― Nigger: An Autobiography
“I was learning 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.”
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