I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
DICK GREGORYNo 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.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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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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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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I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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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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They told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.
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Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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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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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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It’s cool to be healthy.
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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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If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
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You hear entertainers all the time, saying, ‘If I couldn’t get paid for this, I’d do it for free.’ When’s the last time you ever heard a business person say, ‘If I couldn’t get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I’d do it for free?’
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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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