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I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.

Dick Gregory

You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We’re the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X.
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Oneself Secret Yourself
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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Beginning Forget Marriage Politics Promise Relationship
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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Children Destroy Father Hands Man Wind Woman World
There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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Force God Live Willing Yourself
There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
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Limitation Yourself
My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
DICK GREGORY

Believe Explanation Myself Philosophy
Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.
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Fight Job Yourself
I personally would say that the quickest way to wipe out a group of people is to put them on a soul food diet.
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Food Myself People Quick Soul
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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Black Myself People Right Scare See
I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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Deep Education Home Learning Myself Shame
I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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Home Myself People
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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Deal Expression Insult Man Myself
Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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Education Knowledge Wisdom
Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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Goodness Laugh Myself People Value
Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can’t afford it.
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Gratitude People Rich Thankful Worth
Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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Attachment Deep Loss Rich
Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.
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Difference Grow Up Mindset Poor
It’s cool to be healthy.
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Health Instagram Captions One Liner
I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
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Believe Darkness Myself
I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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Home Myself People
My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn’t a Christian, she would stomp you to death.
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Death Live Mom Myself Yourself
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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Career Difference Freedom Time Yourself
I used to get letters saying, ‘I didn’t know black children and white children were the same.’
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Black Children Myself Oppression
To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
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Music Myself Poet
When you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.
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Justice Right Rise Truth
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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Animal Human Life Tolerance
They told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.
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Myself Pregnant Woman

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