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.
DICK GREGORYI 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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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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When you’ve got something really good, you don’t have to force it on people. They will steal it!
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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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Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can’t afford it.
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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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I personally would say that the quickest way to wipe out a group of people is to put them on a soul food diet.
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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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Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.
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Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: ‘We don’t serve colored people here.’ I said: ‘that’s all right, I don’t eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.
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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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There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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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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When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It’s not enough, but it helps.
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