The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
DICK GREGORYDid you know that in New Orleans they still have brown bag parties? What’s that, you ask? You and I go to a party, and when we get to the door, there’s a brown bag hanging down from the ceiling, and if our skin is darker than the brown bag, we can’t go in.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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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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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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Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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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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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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It’s cool to be healthy.
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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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Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can’t afford it.
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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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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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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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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 never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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