# Quote — Dick Gregory, Nigger

> Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and 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.”

- Author: [Dick Gregory](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dick-gregory.md)
- Book: [Nigger](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dick-gregory/nigger.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dick_Gregory#Nigger:_An_Autobiography_(1964)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/dick-gregory/nigger/last-time-i-was

## More from this book

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

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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.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dick-gregory/nigger/when-you-have.md)