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"My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946."
"Mahalia Jackson, I grew up around the corner from in Chicago."
"Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago."
"It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters."
"I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen."
"Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose."
Explore more quotes by Dick Gregory
"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."
"We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre."
"In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country."
"And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede."
"Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine."
"I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man."
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