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.
DICK GREGORYJust being a Negro doesn’t qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
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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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Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
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The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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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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Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.
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We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn’t it either. I’m going to be an American Citizen. First-class.
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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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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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I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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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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To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
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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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It’s cool to be healthy.
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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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They told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.
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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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There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
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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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It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn’t stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.
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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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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 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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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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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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