They told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.
DICK GREGORYMakes 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.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
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Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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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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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 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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I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
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When I go through the airport and see white women walking through the airport barefooted, like athlete’s feet don’t exist, there’s something wrong.
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I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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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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It’s cool to be healthy.
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No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That’s already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.
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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.
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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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