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.
DICK GREGORYThere is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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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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Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.
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When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the evening – there wasn’t no 24-hour news.
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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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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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I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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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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Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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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 never thought I’d see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we were in Mississippi.
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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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When you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.
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I used to get letters saying, ‘I didn’t know black children and white children were the same.’
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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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