To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
DICK GREGORYPolitical 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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Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
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When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It’s not enough, but it helps.
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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.
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It’s cool to be healthy.
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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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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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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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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don’t misuse a household pet.
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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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In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago, it’s a sport.
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I used to get letters saying, ‘I didn’t know black children and white children were the same.’
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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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There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
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When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.
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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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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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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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I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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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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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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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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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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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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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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