Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
DICK GREGORYThere’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago, it’s a sport.
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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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Even though he understood the depths of racism and black oppression, Ali lived his life as a free man—a free loving and lovable man.
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It’s cool to be healthy.
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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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Every door of racial prejudice I can kick down, is one less door that my children have to kick down.
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And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.
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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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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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I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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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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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 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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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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Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
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