There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
DICK GREGORYLast time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: ‘We don’t serve colored people here.’ I said: ‘that’s all right, I don’t eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.
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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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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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It’s cool to be healthy.
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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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I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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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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To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
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I wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
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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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Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.
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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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Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don’t have the ability to be lovable.
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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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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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