Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
DICK GREGORYIf they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol, and caffeine off the market for six days, they’d have to bring out the tanks to control you.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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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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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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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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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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I wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
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There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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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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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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I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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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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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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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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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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