It’s cool to be healthy.
DICK GREGORYWe 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.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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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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Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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Just being a Negro doesn’t qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.
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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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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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To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
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They told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.
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When I go through the airport and see white women walking through the airport barefooted, like athlete’s feet don’t exist, there’s something wrong.
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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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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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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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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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We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn’t it either. I’m going to be an American Citizen. First-class.
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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.
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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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