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.
DICK GREGORYIn 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.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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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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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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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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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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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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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn’t stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.
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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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Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can’t afford it.
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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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There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
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Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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