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.
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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I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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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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The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That’s already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.
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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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I wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
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America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don’t misuse a household pet.
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Did you know that in New Orleans they still have brown bag parties? What’s that, you ask? You and I go to a party, and when we get to the door, there’s a brown bag hanging down from the ceiling, and if our skin is darker than the brown bag, we can’t go in.
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Even though he understood the depths of racism and black oppression, Ali lived his life as a free man—a free loving and lovable man.
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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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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
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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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