There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
DICK GREGORYYou 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.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn’t stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.
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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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Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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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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Just being a Negro doesn’t qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.
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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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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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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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In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don’t know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.
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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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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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I wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
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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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Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
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I used to get letters saying, ‘I didn’t know black children and white children were the same.’
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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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When 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.
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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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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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We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry because we didn’t think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.
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I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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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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If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
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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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