It’s cool to be healthy.
DICK GREGORYIf democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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Even though he understood the depths of racism and black oppression, Ali lived his life as a free man—a free loving and lovable man.
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If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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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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No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That’s already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.
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When I was a boy, I was taught never to use insulting expressions like, ‘I’ve been gypped,’ or, ‘He welshed on the deal.’
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There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
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Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.
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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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Every door of racial prejudice I can kick down, is one less door that my children have to kick down.
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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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When you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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When you’ve got something really good, you don’t have to force it on people. They will steal it!
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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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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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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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