It’s cool to be healthy.
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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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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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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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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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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There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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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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America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don’t misuse a household pet.
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Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
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You hear entertainers all the time, saying, ‘If I couldn’t get paid for this, I’d do it for free.’ When’s the last time you ever heard a business person say, ‘If I couldn’t get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I’d do it for free?’
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I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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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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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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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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