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.
DICK GREGORYWhen 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.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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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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Even though he understood the depths of racism and black oppression, Ali lived his life as a free man—a free loving and lovable man.
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I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn’t have what I wanted.
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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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When you’ve got something really good, you don’t have to force it on people. They will steal it!
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Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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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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People with high blood pressure, diabetes – those are conditions brought about by lifestyle. If you change the lifestyle, those conditions will leave.
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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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One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
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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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We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry because we didn’t think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.
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I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
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I wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
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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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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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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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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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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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Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.
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If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
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