Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don’t have the ability to be lovable.
DICK GREGORYPolitical 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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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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They told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.
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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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I wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
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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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When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.
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We 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.
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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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To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
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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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I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn’t have what I wanted.
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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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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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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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And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.
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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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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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Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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When you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.
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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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It’s cool to be healthy.
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In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago, it’s a sport.
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Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.
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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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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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