When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It’s not enough, but it helps.
DICK GREGORYJust being a Negro doesn’t qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
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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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Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.
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I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol, and caffeine off the market for six days, they’d have to bring out the tanks to control you.
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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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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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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 never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
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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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It’s cool to be healthy.
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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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