I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
DICK GREGORYI used to get letters saying, ‘I didn’t know black children and white children were the same.’
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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You know, I always say white is not a color, white is an attitude, and if you haven’t got trillions of dollars in the bank that you don’t need, you can’t be white.
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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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Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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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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If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
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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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Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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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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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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Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
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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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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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