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 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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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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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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Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
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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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There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
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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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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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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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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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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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Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
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There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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