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.
DICK GREGORYRevolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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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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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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I wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
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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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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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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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When you’ve got something really good, you don’t have to force it on people. They will steal it!
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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 tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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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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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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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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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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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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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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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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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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I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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It’s cool to be healthy.
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When I was a boy, I was taught never to use insulting expressions like, ‘I’ve been gypped,’ or, ‘He welshed on the deal.’
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If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
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If all you can do is judge a person by their appearance because you don’t have the spirit to judge someone from within, you’re in trouble.
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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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Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.
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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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I believe young voters will either vote for Obama or not vote at all. So the problem is not Obama the problem is the system. If you think about how mess up this country is, most folk really don’t have choices.
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