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To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.

Dick Gregory

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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Black Enjoyment Man Myself
The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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Acceptance Difficult People Truth
I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
DICK GREGORY

Career Laughter Myself
Every door of racial prejudice I can kick down, is one less door that my children have to kick down.
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Children Oppression Race
I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
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Believe Darkness Myself
My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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Belief Explanation Myself
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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Deep Evil Ourselves See Sun Yourself
There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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Force God Live Willing Yourself
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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Beginning Forget Marriage Politics Promise Relationship
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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Children Destroy Father Hands Man Wind Woman World
Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
DICK GREGORY

Food Mom
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.
DICK GREGORY

Dance Love War
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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Deal Expression Insult Man Myself
I wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
DICK GREGORY

Country Friendship Mindset Myself Pay
When you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.
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Justice Right Rise Truth
When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It’s not enough, but it helps.
DICK GREGORY

Enough Father Goodness Help Mom Yourself
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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Attitude Money Need Yourself
Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
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Nature Revolution
There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
DICK GREGORY

Limitation Yourself
If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol, and caffeine off the market for six days, they’d have to bring out the tanks to control you.
DICK GREGORY

Alcohol Control Yourself
I personally would say that the quickest way to wipe out a group of people is to put them on a soul food diet.
DICK GREGORY

Food Myself People Quick Soul
I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
DICK GREGORY

Home Myself People
I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
DICK GREGORY

Home Myself People
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.
DICK GREGORY

Black Deep Life Love Man Oppression Race Understand
Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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Attachment Deep Loss Rich
Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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Education Knowledge Wisdom
People with high blood pressure, diabetes – those are conditions brought about by lifestyle. If you change the lifestyle, those conditions will leave.
DICK GREGORY

Change Health Life People

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