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    I tell people, 'If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.'

    White | Message | House


    When I go through the airport and see white women walking through the airport barefooted, like athlete's feet don't exist, there's something wrong.

    Women | Walking | Feet


    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.

    Work | Dance | Law


    Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.

    Soldiers | White


    I buy about $1,500 worth of papers every month. Not that I trust them. I'm looking for the crack in the fabric.

    Trust | Looking | Worth


    I'm not a comic. I'm a humorist.

    Comic | Humorist


    When I was a boy, I was taught never to use insulting expressions like, 'I've been gypped,' or, 'He welshed on the deal.'

    Boy | Deal | Taught


    In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.

    Politics | Sports | Voting


    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.

    Brand | Harlem | Avenue


    Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.

    Loss | Riches | Possession


    To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.

    Great | Seeing | Watching


    Every holiday on the calendar, I check in a hotel and fast - I don't eat, I don't drink, I don't talk.

    Holiday | Hotel | Talk


    Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.

    Hell | Liberal | Scorned


    I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.

    Dark | White | Santa


    I wouldn't mind paying taxes - if I knew they were going to a friendly country.

    Taxes | Friendly | Knew


    I used to get letters saying, 'I didn't know black children and white children were the same.'

    Black | Saying | White


    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.

    Black | Rights | White


    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.

    History | Progress | Black


    There's a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.

    God | Inside | Force


    It's cool to be healthy.

    Cool | Healthy


       

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