Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.
DICK GREGORYWhen I was a boy, I was taught never to use insulting expressions like, ‘I’ve been gypped,’ or, ‘He welshed on the deal.’
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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When you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.
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It’s cool to be healthy.
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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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When you’ve got something really good, you don’t have to force it on people. They will steal it!
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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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Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.
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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don’t know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.
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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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To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
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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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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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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 belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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If 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.
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