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.
DICK GREGORYThere is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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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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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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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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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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Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
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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 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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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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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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When you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.
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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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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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Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can’t afford it.
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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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There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
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