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.
DICK GREGORYIt’s cool to be healthy.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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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’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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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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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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I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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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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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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I never thought I’d see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we were in Mississippi.
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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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Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: ‘We don’t serve colored people here.’ I said: ‘that’s all right, I don’t eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.
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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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It’s cool to be healthy.
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I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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