I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
DICK GREGORYLove is very dangerous if you just have love and don’t have the ability to be lovable.
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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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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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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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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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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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Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
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Did you know that in New Orleans they still have brown bag parties? What’s that, you ask? You and I go to a party, and when we get to the door, there’s a brown bag hanging down from the ceiling, and if our skin is darker than the brown bag, we can’t go in.
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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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One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
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Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don’t have the ability to be lovable.
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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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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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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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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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