If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
DICK GREGORYI’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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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There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
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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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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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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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It’s cool to be healthy.
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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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I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn’t it either. I’m going to be an American Citizen. First-class.
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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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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 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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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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