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

Gregory contrasts the moral education of his family with the social education imposed by the wider world. “Home” stands for a sphere of care and dignity, while “school” becomes a metonym for public institutions that transmit prejudice—teaching children racial hierarchy, humiliation, and self-doubt as part of everyday life. The line’s bitter irony underscores how hatred is not innate but learned, and how shame can be socially manufactured rather than personally deserved. In Gregory’s broader comedic and civil-rights rhetoric, the quip functions as both indictment and testimony: it exposes systemic racism’s formative power while affirming the possibility of a different ethical upbringing.