America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don’t misuse a household pet.
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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Makes you wonder. When I left St. Louis, I was making five dollars a night. Now I’m getting $5,000 a week — for saying the same things out loud I used to say under my breath.
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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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I used to get letters saying, ‘I didn’t know black children and white children were the same.’
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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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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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Every door of racial prejudice I can kick down, is one less door that my children have to kick down.
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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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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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Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don’t have the ability to be lovable.
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Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
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I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
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And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.
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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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I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn’t have what I wanted.
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I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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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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If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
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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 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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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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To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
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The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
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Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
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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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