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.
DICK GREGORYWhen I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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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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It’s cool to be healthy.
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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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When you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.
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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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Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.
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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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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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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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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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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 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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When you’ve got something really good, you don’t have to force it on people. They will steal it!
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