I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
DICK GREGORYEvery door of racial prejudice I can kick down, is one less door that my children have to kick down.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the evening – there wasn’t no 24-hour news.
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It’s cool to be healthy.
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I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
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I wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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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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The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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I 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.
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I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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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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Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: ‘We don’t serve colored people here.’ I said: ‘that’s all right, I don’t eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.
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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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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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