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.
DICK GREGORYI wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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Did 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.
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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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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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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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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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We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry because we didn’t think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.
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You hear entertainers all the time, saying, ‘If I couldn’t get paid for this, I’d do it for free.’ When’s the last time you ever heard a business person say, ‘If I couldn’t get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I’d do it for free?’
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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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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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Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
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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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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 shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.
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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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