My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
DICK GREGORYI used to get letters saying, ‘I didn’t know black children and white children were the same.’
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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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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I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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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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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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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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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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Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can’t afford it.
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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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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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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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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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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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The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
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If all you can do is judge a person by their appearance because you don’t have the spirit to judge someone from within, you’re in trouble.
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Just being a Negro doesn’t qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.
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