Dick Gregory Quotes - Page 4

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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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  Mom, Mother, Father

  Dick Gregory, Robert Lipsyte (1990). “Nigger”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.

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  Baseball, Humorous, Men

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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.

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  Attitude, White, Dollars

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

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  Mother, Coconuts, Milk

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• 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 the FBI. Now let me tell you why I'm saying this. I don't believe no insignificant pip-squeak is going to be able to pull this off month after month and we can't find out what's going on.

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  Believe, Thinking, Records

  "Dick Gregory's Role as Michael Jackson's Adviser". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. July 12, 2005.

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• When you look at Hitler and those thugs, you can put Walmart right next to them.

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  Thug, Walmart, Looks

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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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  People, Looks, Should

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• I didn't realize, when I decided to be a comic, that a black person had never been allowed to stand flat-footed in America and talk to white folks. It never happened before.

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  White, America, Black

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• At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.

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  Eye, Lasts, Moments

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

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  Belief, Certain, Knows

  "Dick Gregory's Role as Michael Jackson's Adviser". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. July 12, 2005.

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• I would never teach a child of mine to be kind to a cop who would shoot you in the back of the head. I would never have that conversation because children don't hear what you mean, they hear what you say.

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  Children, Mean, Be Kind

  "Comedian Dick Gregory says the hot-button issues of the '60s haven't cooled down". NewsOK Interview, newsok.com. April 16, 2015.

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• Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.

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  Jobs, White, America

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• Eating liver out of a cow's body is like eating the filter out of a car.

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  Car, Filters, Body

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• I buy about $1,500 worth of papers every month. Not that I trust them. I'm looking for the crack in the fabric.

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  Cracks, Fabric, Paper

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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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  Christian, Mother, Jesus

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• A Klaner KKK is a cat who gets out of bed in the middle of the night and takes his sheet with him.

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  Cat, Night, Kkk

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The jelly-bean eating thug says that national defense is important. But national defense starts at home.

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  Peace, War, Home

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• To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.

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  Comedian, Musician, Poet

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• 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 stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.

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  Law, White, Black

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• Once we used to have to crank up our cars, now you can pop it on from inside your house. Everything has changed except how we get freedom.

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  Car, House, Crank

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• Don't have a high school diploma? You're in my Cabinet. Why? For 200 years, a lot of Cabinets have existed in our government. Powerful men. Well-educated. So let's try something totally new.

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  Powerful, School, Men

  "Talking to Dick Gregory: Comedy, Selma and Cosby". Interview with Christopher Borrelli, www.chicagotribune.com. April 10, 2015.

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• Because you make me laugh don't make you a comic. A comedian is a person who, that's how they make their living.

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  Laughing, Comedian, Make Me Laugh

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• I won't say I'm out of condition now - but I even puff going downstairs.

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  Health, Puff, Conditions

  Dick Gregory (1966). “From the Back of the Bus”

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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 was in Mississippi.

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  White, Rights, Black

  "Dick Gregory's Role as Michael Jackson's Adviser". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. July 12, 2005.

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• It's cool to be healthy.

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  Healthy

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