If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
DICK GREGORYThere is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
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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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When you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.
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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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I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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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 you’ve got something really good, you don’t have to force it on people. They will steal it!
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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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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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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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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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I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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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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