The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
DICK GREGORYIf all you can do is judge a person by their appearance because you don’t have the spirit to judge someone from within, you’re in trouble.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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No 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.
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Did you know that in New Orleans they still have brown bag parties? What’s that, you ask? You and I go to a party, and when we get to the door, there’s a brown bag hanging down from the ceiling, and if our skin is darker than the brown bag, we can’t go in.
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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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I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn’t have what I wanted.
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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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Just being a Negro doesn’t qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.
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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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Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
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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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I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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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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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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