The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
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 used to get letters saying, ‘I didn’t know black children and white children were the same.’
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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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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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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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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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When you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.
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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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There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
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It’s cool to be healthy.
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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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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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I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
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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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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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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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