I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
DICK GREGORYI personally would say that the quickest way to wipe out a group of people is to put them on a soul food diet.
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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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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There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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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 personally would say that the quickest way to wipe out a group of people is to put them on a soul food diet.
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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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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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It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn’t stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.
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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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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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I personally believe breathatarianism to be the highest mode of human living breathing in pure air, absorbing the direct light and energies of the sun, bathing in pure water I look at the obituaries every morning and ain’t nobody listed but you eaters.
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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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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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