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?’
DICK GREGORYThey told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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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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When you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.
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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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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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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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It’s cool to be healthy.
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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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I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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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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There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.
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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
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