I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
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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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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Every door of racial prejudice I can kick down, is one less door that my children have to kick down.
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It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn’t stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.
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There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
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I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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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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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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Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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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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I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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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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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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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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