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.
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.
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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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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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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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Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.
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Did you know that in New Orleans they still have brown bag parties? What’s that, you ask? You and I go to a party, and when we get to the door, there’s a brown bag hanging down from the ceiling, and if our skin is darker than the brown bag, we can’t go in.
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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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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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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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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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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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When I was a boy, I was taught never to use insulting expressions like, ‘I’ve been gypped,’ or, ‘He welshed on the deal.’
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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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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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It’s cool to be healthy.
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I personally would say that the quickest way to wipe out a group of people is to put them on a soul food diet.
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Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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When you’ve got something really good, you don’t have to force it on people. They will steal it!
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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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They told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.
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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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When you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.
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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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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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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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