Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
DICK GREGORYMy 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.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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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 believe young voters will either vote for Obama or not vote at all. So the problem is not Obama the problem is the system. If you think about how mess up this country is, most folk really don’t have choices.
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Even though he understood the depths of racism and black oppression, Ali lived his life as a free man—a free loving and lovable man.
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I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp – just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.
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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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Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can’t afford it.
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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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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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I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn’t have what I wanted.
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There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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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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I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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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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When you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.
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