There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
DICK GREGORYThe only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
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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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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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When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.
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One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
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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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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.
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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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Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.
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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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I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp – just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.
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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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Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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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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