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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class.
- Forest
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- Nov 07, 2020
In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.
- Neighborhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
- Humorist
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a comic. I'm a humorist.
- Friendly
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't mind paying taxes - if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
- Loss
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- Nov 07, 2020
Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they'd have to bring out the tanks to control you.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tell people, 'If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.'
- Lady
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn't a Christian, she would stomp you to death.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to get letters saying, 'I didn't know black children and white children were the same.'
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'?
- Attitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, I always say white is not a colour, white is an attitude, and if you haven't got trillions of dollars in the bank that you don't need, you can't be white.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
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, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another.
- Fast
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every holiday on the calendar, I check in a hotel and fast - I don't eat, I don't drink, I don't talk.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you take 12 waters from the coconut - not the ones you buy in the store, although that's good - but the fresh coconuts, the little brown ones with the three eyes, if you take 12 of those within 24 hours, your blood will go back to the way it was when you were born.
- Milk
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- Nov 07, 2020
Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother's milk.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the evening - there wasn't no 24-hour news.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a boy, I was taught never to use insulting expressions like, 'I've been gypped,' or, 'He welshed on the deal.'
- Healthy
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's cool to be healthy.
- Certain Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that's never been explained.
- Civil Rights Movement
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 rights movement when we was in Mississippi.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now here's what I'm saying: I've always believed that every other month we hear about compromisation of bank records, I think that's the CIA and the FBI. Now let me tell you why I'm saying this. I don't believe no insignificant pip-squeak is going to be able to pull this off month after month and we can't find out what's going on.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can't afford it.
- Bellies
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to Ethiopia, and it dawned on me that you can tell a starving, malnourished person because they've got a bloated belly and a bald head. And I realized that if you come through any American airport and see businessmen running through with bloated bellies and bald heads, that's malnutrition, too.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020