I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
DICK GREGORYIt’s cool to be healthy.
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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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If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol, and caffeine off the market for six days, they’d have to bring out the tanks to control you.
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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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When you’ve got something really good, you don’t have to force it on people. They will steal it!
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There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
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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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To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
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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 used to get letters saying, ‘I didn’t know black children and white children were the same.’
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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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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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It’s cool to be healthy.
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There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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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 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 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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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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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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Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can’t afford 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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Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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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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Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
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