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.
DICK GREGORYIf it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.
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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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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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I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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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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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
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It’s cool to be healthy.
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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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Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
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If all you can do is judge a person by their appearance because you don’t have the spirit to judge someone from within, you’re in trouble.
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There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
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They told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.
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