There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
DICK GREGORYHome was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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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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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 used to get letters saying, ‘I didn’t know black children and white children were the same.’
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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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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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Every door of racial prejudice I can kick down, is one less door that my children have to kick down.
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Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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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 never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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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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When you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.
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