Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
DICK GREGORYI’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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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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Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don’t have the ability to be lovable.
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If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
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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 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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When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It’s not enough, but it helps.
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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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I personally believe breathatarianism to be the highest mode of human living breathing in pure air, absorbing the direct light and energies of the sun, bathing in pure water I look at the obituaries every morning and ain’t nobody listed but you eaters.
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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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I wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
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And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.
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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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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 I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.
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