Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can’t afford it.
DICK GREGORYMy belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
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My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn’t a Christian, she would stomp you to death.
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You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We’re the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X.
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There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
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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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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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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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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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Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
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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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The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
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I used to get letters saying, ‘I didn’t know black children and white children were the same.’
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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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Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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