Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
DICK GREGORYEducation means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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They told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.
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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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No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That’s already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.
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When I was a boy, I was taught never to use insulting expressions like, ‘I’ve been gypped,’ or, ‘He welshed on the deal.’
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Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
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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 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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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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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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Every door of racial prejudice I can kick down, is one less door that my children have to kick down.
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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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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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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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I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
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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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