I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
DICK GREGORYDid you know that in New Orleans they still have brown bag parties? What’s that, you ask? You and I go to a party, and when we get to the door, there’s a brown bag hanging down from the ceiling, and if our skin is darker than the brown bag, we can’t go in.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
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There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
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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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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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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn’t have what I wanted.
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In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago, it’s a sport.
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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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I wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
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There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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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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When I was a boy, I was taught never to use insulting expressions like, ‘I’ve been gypped,’ or, ‘He welshed on the deal.’
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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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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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