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I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.

— Dick Gregory Nigger: An Autobiography (1964)

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Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only time we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.

When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.

Nigger: An Autobiography (1964)

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The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

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I call on you not to hate, because hate does not leave space for a person to be fair and it makes you blind and closes all doors of thinking.

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