Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
DICK GREGORYI never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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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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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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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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I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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It’s cool to be healthy.
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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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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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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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Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.
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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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Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.
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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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