Just being a Negro doesn’t qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.
DICK GREGORYThe most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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Makes you wonder. When I left St. Louis, I was making five dollars a night. Now I’m getting $5,000 a week — for saying the same things out loud I used to say under my breath.
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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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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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The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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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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I used to get letters saying, ‘I didn’t know black children and white children were the same.’
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Every door of racial prejudice I can kick down, is one less door that my children have to kick down.
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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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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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In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago, it’s a sport.
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I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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