In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago, it’s a sport.
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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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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They told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.
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There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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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 never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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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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Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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It’s cool to be healthy.
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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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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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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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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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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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