“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 Oct. 12, 1932 – Aug. 19, 2017