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

— 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.

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

Nigger: An Autobiography (1964)

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

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