Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don’t have the ability to be lovable.
DICK GREGORYYou 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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Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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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 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.
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Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can’t afford it.
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It’s cool to be healthy.
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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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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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When you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.
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If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
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One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
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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 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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Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
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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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