People with high blood pressure, diabetes – those are conditions brought about by lifestyle. If you change the lifestyle, those conditions will leave.
DICK GREGORYRevolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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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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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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I wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
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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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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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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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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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There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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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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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
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I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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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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We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry because we didn’t think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.
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Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
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