One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
DICK GREGORYThere is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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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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Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: ‘We don’t serve colored people here.’ I said: ‘that’s all right, I don’t eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.
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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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I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
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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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If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
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Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
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There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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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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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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Every door of racial prejudice I can kick down, is one less door that my children have to kick down.
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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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I wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
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