I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
DICK GREGORYI’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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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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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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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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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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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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Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can’t afford it.
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I wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
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I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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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.
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Just being a Negro doesn’t qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.
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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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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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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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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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