When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It’s not enough, but it helps.
DICK GREGORYWhen I go through the airport and see white women walking through the airport barefooted, like athlete’s feet don’t exist, there’s something wrong.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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They told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.
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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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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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If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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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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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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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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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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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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Every door of racial prejudice I can kick down, is one less door that my children have to kick down.
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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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When you’ve got something really good, you don’t have to force it on people. They will steal it!
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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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