There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
DICK GREGORYIn most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago, it’s a sport.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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I wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
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Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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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.
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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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Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.
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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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To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
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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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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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The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
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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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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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Did you know that in New Orleans they still have brown bag parties? What’s that, you ask? You and I go to a party, and when we get to the door, there’s a brown bag hanging down from the ceiling, and if our skin is darker than the brown bag, we can’t go in.
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I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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