My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn’t a Christian, she would stomp you to death.
DICK GREGORYThere is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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Even though he understood the depths of racism and black oppression, Ali lived his life as a free man—a free loving and lovable man.
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There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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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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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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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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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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One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
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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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I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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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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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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Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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