There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
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I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
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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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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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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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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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Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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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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Every door of racial prejudice I can kick down, is one less door that my children have to kick down.
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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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