I personally would say that the quickest way to wipe out a group of people is to put them on a soul food diet.
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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I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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You hear entertainers all the time, saying, ‘If I couldn’t get paid for this, I’d do it for free.’ When’s the last time you ever heard a business person say, ‘If I couldn’t get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I’d do it for free?’
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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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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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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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When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.
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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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I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
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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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Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
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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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Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.
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There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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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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