To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
DICK GREGORYNo 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.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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It’s cool to be healthy.
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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 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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When you’ve got something really good, you don’t have to force it on people. They will steal it!
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I wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
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When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the evening – there wasn’t no 24-hour news.
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People with high blood pressure, diabetes – those are conditions brought about by lifestyle. If you change the lifestyle, those conditions will leave.
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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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I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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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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America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don’t misuse a household pet.
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The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
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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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There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
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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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