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.
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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Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can’t afford it.
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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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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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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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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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We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn’t it either. I’m going to be an American Citizen. First-class.
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Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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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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It’s cool to be healthy.
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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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Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
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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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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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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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You know, I always say white is not a color, white is an attitude, and if you haven’t got trillions of dollars in the bank that you don’t need, you can’t be white.
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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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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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Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.
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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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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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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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When you’ve got something really good, you don’t have to force it on people. They will steal it!
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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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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 never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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