“Last time I was down South, I walked into this restaurant. This white waitress came up to me and said, 'We don't serve coloured people here.’
I said, 'That's all right, I don't eat coloured 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, comedian and activist (Oct. 12, 1932 - Aug. 19, 2017)