Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don’t have the ability to be lovable.
DICK GREGORYWhen you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
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Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
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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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They told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.
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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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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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When you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.
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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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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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When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It’s not enough, but it helps.
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Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.
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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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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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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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When I go through the airport and see white women walking through the airport barefooted, like athlete’s feet don’t exist, there’s something wrong.
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