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.
DICK GREGORYIt was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn’t stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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Just being a Negro doesn’t qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.
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Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: ‘We don’t serve colored people here.’ I said: ‘that’s all right, I don’t eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.
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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
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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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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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They told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.
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When you’ve got something really good, you don’t have to force it on people. They will steal it!
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I wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
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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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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We’re the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X.
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