My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
DICK GREGORY
Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.
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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When you’ve got something really good, you don’t have to force it on people. They will steal it!
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Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.
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Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled 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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There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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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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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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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’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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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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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.
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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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We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn’t it either. I’m going to be an American Citizen. First-class.
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America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don’t misuse a household pet.
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