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.
DICK GREGORYCoconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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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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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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Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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I wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
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When I go through the airport and see white women walking through the airport barefooted, like athlete’s feet don’t exist, there’s something wrong.
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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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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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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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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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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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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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Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.
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If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
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