One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
DICK GREGORYAnd 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.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
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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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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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When you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.
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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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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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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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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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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 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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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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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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Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.
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It’s cool to be healthy.
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Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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