When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It’s not enough, but it helps.
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 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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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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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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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.
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Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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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 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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I believe young voters will either vote for Obama or not vote at all. So the problem is not Obama the problem is the system. If you think about how mess up this country is, most folk really don’t have choices.
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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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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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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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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
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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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