Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.
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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Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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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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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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I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
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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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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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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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Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
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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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Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can’t afford it.
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It’s cool to be healthy.
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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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Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: ‘We don’t serve colored people here.’ I said: ‘that’s all right, I don’t eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.
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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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