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.
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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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 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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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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Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.
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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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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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Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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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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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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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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I wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
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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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They told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.
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