I wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
DICK GREGORYIf they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol, and caffeine off the market for six days, they’d have to bring out the tanks to control you.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
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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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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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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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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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If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
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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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I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
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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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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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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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I personally would say that the quickest way to wipe out a group of people is to put them on a soul food diet.
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Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.
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