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.
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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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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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 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 shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.
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There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
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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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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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Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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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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Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don’t have the ability to be lovable.
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Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can’t afford it.
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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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I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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