There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
DICK GREGORYI never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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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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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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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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America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don’t misuse a household pet.
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You know, I always say white is not a color, white is an attitude, and if you haven’t got trillions of dollars in the bank that you don’t need, you can’t be white.
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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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If 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.
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Every door of racial prejudice I can kick down, is one less door that my children have to kick down.
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It’s cool to be healthy.
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I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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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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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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And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.
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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.
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Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
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