Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
DICK GREGORYOne of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
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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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You know, I always say white is not a color, white is an attitude, and if you haven’t got trillions of dollars in the bank that you don’t need, you can’t be white.
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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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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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When you’ve got something really good, you don’t have to force it on people. They will steal it!
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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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When you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.
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To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
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Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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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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There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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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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One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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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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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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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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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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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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In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don’t know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.
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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 never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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You hear entertainers all the time, saying, ‘If I couldn’t get paid for this, I’d do it for free.’ When’s the last time you ever heard a business person say, ‘If I couldn’t get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I’d do it for free?’
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