Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.
DICK GREGORYI am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp – just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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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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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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Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can’t afford it.
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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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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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They told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.
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If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
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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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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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I never thought I’d see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we were in Mississippi.
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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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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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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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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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