My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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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Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don’t have the ability to be lovable.
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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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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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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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I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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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 you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It’s not enough, but it helps.
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Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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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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It’s cool to be healthy.
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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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One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
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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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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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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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When you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.
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Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.
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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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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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Did 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.
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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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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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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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I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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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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