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 GREGORYThe only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
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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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It 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.
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I never thought I’d see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we were in Mississippi.
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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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The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
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Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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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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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
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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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If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol, and caffeine off the market for six days, they’d have to bring out the tanks to control you.
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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
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