I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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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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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In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago, it’s a sport.
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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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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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Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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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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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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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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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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Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can’t afford it.
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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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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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They told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.
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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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