Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.
DICK GREGORYMy belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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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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Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don’t have the ability to be lovable.
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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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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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I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp – just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.
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In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago, it’s a sport.
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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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Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
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Makes you wonder. When I left St. Louis, I was making five dollars a night. Now I’m getting $5,000 a week — for saying the same things out loud I used to say under my breath.
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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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If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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I wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
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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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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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I believe young voters will either vote for Obama or not vote at all. So the problem is not Obama the problem is the system. If you think about how mess up this country is, most folk really don’t have choices.
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The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
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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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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’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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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 belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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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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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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