To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
DICK GREGORYWhen 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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I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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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.
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There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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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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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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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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Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
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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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Every door of racial prejudice I can kick down, is one less door that my children have to kick down.
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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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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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I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp – just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.
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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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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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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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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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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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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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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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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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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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I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
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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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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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