And 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.
DICK GREGORYI 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.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
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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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Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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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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I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
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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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They told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.
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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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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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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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Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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Did you know that in New Orleans they still have brown bag parties? What’s that, you ask? You and I go to a party, and when we get to the door, there’s a brown bag hanging down from the ceiling, and if our skin is darker than the brown bag, we can’t go in.
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