My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
DICK GREGORYIf democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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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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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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I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
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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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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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Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
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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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I used to get letters saying, ‘I didn’t know black children and white children were the same.’
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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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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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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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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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