I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
DICK GREGORYThere’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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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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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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Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.
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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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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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It’s cool to be healthy.
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I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
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I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn’t have what I wanted.
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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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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 democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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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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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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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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There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
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They told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.
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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 tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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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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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 used to get letters saying, ‘I didn’t know black children and white children were the same.’
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Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
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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 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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No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That’s already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.
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