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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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“Every door of racial prejudice I can kick down, is one less door that my children have to kick down.”
― Nigger
― Nigger
“When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It’s not good enough, but it helps. But I got tired of hearing Momma say, God, fix it so I can pay the rent; God, fix it so the lights will be turned on; God, fix it so the pot is full. I kind of felt it really wasn’t His job.”
― Nigger: An Autobiography
― Nigger: An Autobiography
“Makes you wonder. When I left St. Louis, I was making five dollars a night. Now I'm getting $5,000 a week — for saying the same things out loud I used to say under my breath.”
― From the Back of the Bus
― From the Back of the Bus
“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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