I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
DICK GREGORYMy belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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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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Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: ‘We don’t serve colored people here.’ I said: ‘that’s all right, I don’t eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.
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I personally would say that the quickest way to wipe out a group of people is to put them on a soul food diet.
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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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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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I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
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I wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
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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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Even though he understood the depths of racism and black oppression, Ali lived his life as a free man—a free loving and lovable man.
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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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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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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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I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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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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