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.
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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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
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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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My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn’t a Christian, she would stomp you to death.
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Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled 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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Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: ‘We don’t serve colored people here.’ I said: ‘that’s all right, I don’t eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.
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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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Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don’t have the ability to be lovable.
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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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When I go through the airport and see white women walking through the airport barefooted, like athlete’s feet don’t exist, there’s something wrong.
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I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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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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