There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
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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The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
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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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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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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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It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn’t stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.
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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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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 tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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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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We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry because we didn’t think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.
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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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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’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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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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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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