One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
DICK GREGORYMy belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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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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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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There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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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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When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the evening – there wasn’t no 24-hour news.
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I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don’t have the ability to be lovable.
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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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Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.
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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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It’s cool to be healthy.
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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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Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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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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