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I wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.

Dick Gregory

Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.
DICK GREGORY

Fight Job Yourself
It’s cool to be healthy.
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Health Instagram Captions One Liner
Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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Education Knowledge Wisdom
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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Believe Breathe Human Light Live Morning Myself Sun
My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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Believe Explanation Myself Philosophy
Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn’t stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.
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Black Dance Law Sing Talk Writing
I never thought I’d see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we were in Mississippi.
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Black Myself People Right Scare See
Makes you wonder. When I left St. Louis, I was making five dollars a night. Now I’m getting $5,000 a week — for saying the same things out loud I used to say under my breath.
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Breathe Night Wonderful Yourself
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
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Happiness Learning Oneself People Secret
There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
DICK GREGORY

Force God Live Willing Yourself
Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can’t afford it.
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Gratitude People Rich Thankful Worth
If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
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Myself Poor
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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Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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Goodness Laugh Myself People Value
Every door of racial prejudice I can kick down, is one less door that my children have to kick down.
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