Dick Gregory Quotes

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Dick Gregory

Profession : Comedian

Birth : October 12, 1932

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.

Dick Gregory

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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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 I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.

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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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There's a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.

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You know, I always say white is not a colour, white is an attitude, and if you haven't got trillions of dollars in the bank that you don't need, you can't be white.

Dick Gregory

Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.

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In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.

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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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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that's never been explained.

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If it wasn't for Abe Lincoln, I'd still be on the open market.

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If you take 12 waters from the coconut - not the ones you buy in the store, although that's good - but the fresh coconuts, the little brown ones with the three eyes, if you take 12 of those within 24 hours, your blood will go back to the way it was when you were born.

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I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.

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If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they'd have to bring out the tanks to control you.

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It's cool to be healthy.

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Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother's milk.

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Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another.

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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 am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.

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