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.
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 you’ve got something really good, you don’t have to force it on people. They will steal 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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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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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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I wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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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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One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
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Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
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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 all you can do is judge a person by their appearance because you don’t have the spirit to judge someone from within, you’re in trouble.
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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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I used to get letters saying, ‘I didn’t know black children and white children were the same.’
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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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