You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We’re the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X.
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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There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don’t know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.
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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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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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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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One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
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I never thought I’d see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we were in Mississippi.
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I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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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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I used to get letters saying, ‘I didn’t know black children and white children were the same.’
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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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Every door of racial prejudice I can kick down, is one less door that my children have to kick down.
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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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