Makes you wonder. When I left St. Louis, I was making five dollars a night. Now I’m getting $5,000 a week — for saying the same things out loud I used to say under my breath.
DICK GREGORYThey told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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It’s cool to be healthy.
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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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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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When you’ve got something really good, you don’t have to force it on people. They will steal it!
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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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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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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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I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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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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Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
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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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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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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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