I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
DICK GREGORYThere is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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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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If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol, and caffeine off the market for six days, they’d have to bring out the tanks to control you.
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If all you can do is judge a person by their appearance because you don’t have the spirit to judge someone from within, you’re in trouble.
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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 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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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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Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
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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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When you’ve got something really good, you don’t have to force it on people. They will steal it!
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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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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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One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
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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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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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