Did you know that in New Orleans they still have brown bag parties? What’s that, you ask? You and I go to a party, and when we get to the door, there’s a brown bag hanging down from the ceiling, and if our skin is darker than the brown bag, we can’t go in.
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’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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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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I personally believe breathatarianism to be the highest mode of human living breathing in pure air, absorbing the direct light and energies of the sun, bathing in pure water I look at the obituaries every morning and ain’t nobody listed but you eaters.
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When you’ve got something really good, you don’t have to force it on people. They will steal it!
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If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
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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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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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They told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.
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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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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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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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I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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