I used to get letters saying, ‘I didn’t know black children and white children were the same.’
DICK GREGORYWe 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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I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
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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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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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Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.
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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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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 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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Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
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Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
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The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
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When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It’s not enough, but it helps.
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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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Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can’t afford 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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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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