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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.

Dick Gregory

When I was a boy, I was taught never to use insulting expressions like, ‘I’ve been gypped,’ or, ‘He welshed on the deal.’
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Deal Expression Insult Man Myself
I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
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Believe Darkness Myself
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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Enough Father Goodness Help Mom Yourself
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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Beginning Forget Marriage Politics Promise Relationship
Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.
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Difference Grow Up Mindset Poor
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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Deep Evil Ourselves See Sun Yourself
If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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Democracy Goodness
There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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Force God Live Willing Yourself
It’s cool to be healthy.
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Health Instagram Captions One Liner
To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
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Music Myself Poet
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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Athlete Citizenship Greatness Myself Wrong
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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Myself Result Wait
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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Black Deep Life Love Man Oppression Race Understand
I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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Deep Education Home Learning Myself Shame
The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
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Goodness Past
If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
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Myself Poor

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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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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