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.
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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Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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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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I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
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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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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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When you’ve got something really good, you don’t have to force it on people. They will steal it!
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I personally believe breathatarianism to be the highest mode of human living breathing in pure air, absorbing the direct light and energies of the sun, bathing in pure water I look at the obituaries every morning and ain’t nobody listed but you eaters.
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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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Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
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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 never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don’t have the ability to be lovable.
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Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
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