People with high blood pressure, diabetes – those are conditions brought about by lifestyle. If you change the lifestyle, those conditions will leave.
DICK GREGORYI wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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You know, I always say white is not a color, white is an attitude, and if you haven’t got trillions of dollars in the bank that you don’t need, you can’t be white.
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It’s cool to be healthy.
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I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the evening – there wasn’t no 24-hour news.
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If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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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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And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.
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The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
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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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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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Every door of racial prejudice I can kick down, is one less door that my children have to kick down.
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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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One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
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There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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