Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
DICK GREGORYI’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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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.
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The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
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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 never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
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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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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 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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I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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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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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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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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Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.
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Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
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