It’s cool to be healthy.
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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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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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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I used to get letters saying, ‘I didn’t know black children and white children were the same.’
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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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Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don’t have the ability to be lovable.
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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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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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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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To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
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I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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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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Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
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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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They told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.
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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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