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.
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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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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Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can’t afford it.
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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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One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
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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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Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.
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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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Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don’t have the ability to be lovable.
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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’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
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There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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It’s cool to be healthy.
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Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.
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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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