There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
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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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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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 never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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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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I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp – just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.
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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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You hear entertainers all the time, saying, ‘If I couldn’t get paid for this, I’d do it for free.’ When’s the last time you ever heard a business person say, ‘If I couldn’t get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I’d do it for free?’
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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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Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
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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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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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They told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.
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It’s cool to be healthy.
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I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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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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