Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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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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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Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can’t afford 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 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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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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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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I wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
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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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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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In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don’t know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.
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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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My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn’t a Christian, she would stomp you to death.
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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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I personally would say that the quickest way to wipe out a group of people is to put them on a soul food diet.
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