Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.
DICK GREGORYIt’s cool to be healthy.
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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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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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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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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I believe young voters will either vote for Obama or not vote at all. So the problem is not Obama the problem is the system. If you think about how mess up this country is, most folk really don’t have choices.
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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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Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don’t have the ability to be lovable.
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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 belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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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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Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
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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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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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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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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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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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I used to get letters saying, ‘I didn’t know black children and white children were the same.’
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There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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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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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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It’s cool to be healthy.
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There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
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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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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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The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
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Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can’t afford it.
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