Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.
DICK GREGORYI never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
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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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Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can’t afford it.
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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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Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.
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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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I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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Did you know that in New Orleans they still have brown bag parties? What’s that, you ask? You and I go to a party, and when we get to the door, there’s a brown bag hanging down from the ceiling, and if our skin is darker than the brown bag, we can’t go in.
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When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the evening – there wasn’t no 24-hour news.
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There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
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When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.
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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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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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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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