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.
DICK GREGORYLast time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: ‘We don’t serve colored people here.’ I said: ‘that’s all right, I don’t eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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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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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 used to get letters saying, ‘I didn’t know black children and white children were the same.’
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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’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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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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I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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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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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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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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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 believe young voters will either vote for Obama or not vote at all. So the problem is not Obama the problem is the system. If you think about how mess up this country is, most folk really don’t have choices.
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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.
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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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