Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
DICK GREGORYLove is very dangerous if you just have love and don’t have the ability to be lovable.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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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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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 I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.
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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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When you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.
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Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
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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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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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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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When you’ve got something really good, you don’t have to force it on people. They will steal 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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I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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