My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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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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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Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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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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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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Just being a Negro doesn’t qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.
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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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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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I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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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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We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry because we didn’t think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.
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Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.
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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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