Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can’t afford it.
DICK GREGORYTo me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn’t stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.
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When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the evening – there wasn’t no 24-hour news.
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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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I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
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America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don’t misuse a household pet.
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Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.
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People with high blood pressure, diabetes – those are conditions brought about by lifestyle. If you change the lifestyle, those conditions will leave.
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I wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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I never thought I’d see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we were in Mississippi.
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You know, I always say white is not a color, white is an attitude, and if you haven’t got trillions of dollars in the bank that you don’t need, you can’t be white.
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I personally believe breathatarianism to be the highest mode of human living breathing in pure air, absorbing the direct light and energies of the sun, bathing in pure water I look at the obituaries every morning and ain’t nobody listed but you eaters.
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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.
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You hear entertainers all the time, saying, ‘If I couldn’t get paid for this, I’d do it for free.’ When’s the last time you ever heard a business person say, ‘If I couldn’t get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I’d do it for free?’
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To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
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There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
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Every door of racial prejudice I can kick down, is one less door that my children have to kick down.
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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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I believe young voters will either vote for Obama or not vote at all. So the problem is not Obama the problem is the system. If you think about how mess up this country is, most folk really don’t have choices.
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Even though he understood the depths of racism and black oppression, Ali lived his life as a free man—a free loving and lovable man.
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When you’ve got something really good, you don’t have to force it on people. They will steal it!
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If all you can do is judge a person by their appearance because you don’t have the spirit to judge someone from within, you’re in trouble.
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The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
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No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That’s already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.
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Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.
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