When you’ve got something really good, you don’t have to force it on people. They will steal it!
DICK GREGORYCoconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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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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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 never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
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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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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We’re the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X.
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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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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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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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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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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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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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I never thought I’d see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we were in Mississippi.
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I believe young voters will either vote for Obama or not vote at all. So the problem is not Obama the problem is the system. If you think about how mess up this country is, most folk really don’t have choices.
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