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To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
Dick Gregory
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Dick Gregory
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: October 12
Died: 2017
Died: August 19
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St. Louis
Missouri
Richard Claxton Gregory
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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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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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If you can justify killing to eat meat, you can justify the conditions of the ghetto. I cannot justify either one.
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A friend of mine who works for naval intelligence said an aerial satellite revealed that 1.9 million attended the event in 1995. But if they would have had a rumble at the march the newspapers would have said that 75 million Afro-Americans were there.
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When I went south in the 1960s, I knew I could die. If I went down there and did what I did up in Chicago and made all of those hatin' white folks laugh, then I would have been defeated.
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When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the evening - there wasn't no 24-hour news.
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You got to die of something because if you die of nothing, they won't pay your insurance.
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Race baiters and discriminators may go underground, but they never move out of town.
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In the South they don't mind how close I get, so long as I don't get too big. In the North they don't mind how big I get, so long as I don't get too close.
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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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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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People with high blood pressure, diabetes - those are conditions brought about by life style. If you change the life style, those conditions will leave.
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The world is fed by greed.
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The only good thing about the good old days is they're gone.
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Every holiday on the calendar, I check in a hotel and fast - I don't eat, I don't drink, I don't talk.
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If it wasn't for Abe Lincoln, I'd still be on the open market.
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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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Once I realised the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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I go to Chinese Christian community. Jesus looks Chinese. I go to Japanese Christian community. Jesus looks Japanese. I go to Brazilian Christian community. Jesus looks Brazilian. How come in America Jesus looks white?
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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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