When I was a boy, I was taught never to use insulting expressions like, ‘I’ve been gypped,’ or, ‘He welshed on the deal.’
DICK GREGORYWhen you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It’s not enough, but it helps.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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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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Even though he understood the depths of racism and black oppression, Ali lived his life as a free man—a free loving and lovable man.
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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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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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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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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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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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I personally believe breathatarianism to be the highest mode of human living breathing in pure air, absorbing the direct light and energies of the sun, bathing in pure water I look at the obituaries every morning and ain’t nobody listed but you eaters.
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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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I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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If all you can do is judge a person by their appearance because you don’t have the spirit to judge someone from within, you’re in trouble.
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