They told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.
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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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn’t have what I wanted.
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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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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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I wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
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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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In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don’t know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.
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When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.
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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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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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Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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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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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 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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Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.
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Even though he understood the depths of racism and black oppression, Ali lived his life as a free man—a free loving and lovable man.
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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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I believe young voters will either vote for Obama or not vote at all. So the problem is not Obama the problem is the system. If you think about how mess up this country is, most folk really don’t have choices.
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There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
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You hear entertainers all the time, saying, ‘If I couldn’t get paid for this, I’d do it for free.’ When’s the last time you ever heard a business person say, ‘If I couldn’t get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I’d do it for free?’
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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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Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can’t afford it.
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Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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