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.
DICK GREGORYI personally would say that the quickest way to wipe out a group of people is to put them on a soul food diet.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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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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Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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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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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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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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To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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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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In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago, it’s a sport.
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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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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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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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Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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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 believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
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