It’s cool to be healthy.
DICK GREGORYOne of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
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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When I go through the airport and see white women walking through the airport barefooted, like athlete’s feet don’t exist, there’s something wrong.
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Just being a Negro doesn’t qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.
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Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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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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Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can’t afford it.
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Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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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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People with high blood pressure, diabetes – those are conditions brought about by lifestyle. If you change the lifestyle, those conditions will leave.
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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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No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That’s already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.
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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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If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
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America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don’t misuse a household pet.
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I used to get letters saying, ‘I didn’t know black children and white children were the same.’
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