The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
DICK GREGORYI 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.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.
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If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
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Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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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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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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Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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I never thought I’d see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we were in Mississippi.
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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
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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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When you’ve got something really good, you don’t have to force it on people. They will steal it!
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