People with high blood pressure, diabetes – those are conditions brought about by lifestyle. If you change the lifestyle, those conditions will leave.
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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When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.
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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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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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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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If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
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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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I used to get letters saying, ‘I didn’t know black children and white children were the same.’
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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
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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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One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
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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 tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don’t have the ability to be lovable.
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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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