Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
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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Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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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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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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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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I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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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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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 I go through the airport and see white women walking through the airport barefooted, like athlete’s feet don’t exist, there’s something wrong.
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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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I used to get letters saying, ‘I didn’t know black children and white children were the same.’
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I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn’t have what I wanted.
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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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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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