Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
DICK GREGORYIn 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.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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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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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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I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
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Makes you wonder. When I left St. Louis, I was making five dollars a night. Now I’m getting $5,000 a week — for saying the same things out loud I used to say under my breath.
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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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To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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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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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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Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
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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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If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol, and caffeine off the market for six days, they’d have to bring out the tanks to control you.
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I wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
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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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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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