Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don’t have the ability to be lovable.
DICK GREGORYThere’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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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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Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can’t afford it.
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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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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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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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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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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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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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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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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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One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
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There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
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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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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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