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.
DICK GREGORYI used to get letters saying, ‘I didn’t know black children and white children were the same.’
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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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There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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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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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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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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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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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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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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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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If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
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Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.
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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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I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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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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