It’s cool to be healthy.
DICK GREGORYAnd 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.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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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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I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn’t have what I wanted.
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There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
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Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
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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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My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn’t a Christian, she would stomp you to death.
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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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Makes you wonder. When I left St. Louis, I was making five dollars a night. Now I’m getting $5,000 a week — for saying the same things out loud I used to say under my breath.
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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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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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There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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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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I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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