Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don’t have the ability to be lovable.
DICK GREGORYPoor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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Just being a Negro doesn’t qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.
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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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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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I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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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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There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
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I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: ‘We don’t serve colored people here.’ I said: ‘that’s all right, I don’t eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.
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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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Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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They told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.
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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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