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You Quotes by Dick Gregory
- 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…
- Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.
- When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.
- 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…
- Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.
- If you take 12 waters from the coconut - not the ones you buy in the store, although that's good - but the fresh coconuts,…
- 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…
- People with high blood pressure, diabetes - those are conditions brought about by life style. If you change the life style, those conditions will leave.
- I went to Ethiopia, and it dawned on me that you can tell a starving, malnourished person because they've got a bloated belly and a…
- And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part…
- You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X.
- My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that's never been explained.
- 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…
- It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn't…
- Now here's what I'm saying: I've always believed that every other month we hear about compromisation of bank records, I think that's the CIA and…
- There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
- 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,…
- Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.
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