Nigger Quotes

“Dear Momma―Wherever you are, if ever you hear the word "nigger" again, remember they are advertising my book.”
― Dick Gregory, Nigger

“Last time I was down South, I walked into this restaurant. 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.' About that time, these three cousins came in. You know the ones I mean, Ku, Klux and Klan. They said, 'Boy, we're givin' you fair warnin. Anything you do to that chicken, we're gonna do to you.'

"So I put down my knife and fork, picked up that chicken, and kissed it.”
― Dick Gregory, Nigger

“Every door of racial prejudice I can kick down, is one less door that my children have to kick down.”
― Dick Gregory, 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.”
― Dick Gregory, Nigger: An Autobiography

“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.”
― Dick Gregory, Nigger

“They told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.”
― Dick Gregory, Nigger

“When you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.”
― Dick Gregory, Nigger

“Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.”
― Dick Gregory, Nigger: An Autobiography

“I told them, if you carry fifty pounds on your back and don’t weaken, you strengthen your back to carry a hundred, and then a thousand, and if that doesn’t break you, some day you’ll be able to carry the world. And walk with it. That’s how strong I feel.”
― Dick Gregory, Nigger: An Autobiography

“I guess that makes me as white as you now, boy. I got your spit inside me.”
― Dick Gregory, Nigger

“And then the foreman told another boss to put me down in the furnace pit. "Nigger can take the heat better," he said. Well, the system wasn't going to beat me. I stood up next to that furnace, and I ate their goddamned salt tablets and just refused to pass out. They weren't going to make me quit, and I wasn't going to give them cause to fire me. I'd lean into that blazing pit until my face would sting, and when the lunch whistle blew I'd fall on the floor and vomit blood for half an hour and I'd clean it up myself.”
― Dick Gregory, Nigger