And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.
DICK GREGORYThe only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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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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It’s cool to be healthy.
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If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
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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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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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Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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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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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
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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 tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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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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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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There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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