The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
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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Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don’t have the ability to be lovable.
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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 personally would say that the quickest way to wipe out a group of people is to put them on a soul food diet.
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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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Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
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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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I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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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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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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We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry because we didn’t think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.
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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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Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.
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I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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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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