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 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?’
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn’t have what I wanted.
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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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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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There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
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I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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Just being a Negro doesn’t qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.
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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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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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We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn’t it either. I’m going to be an American Citizen. First-class.
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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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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
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I wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
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