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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
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Richard Claxton Gregory
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America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misuse a household pet.
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Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you would never collect the money. At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.
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Black Americans are the only people in history who are for education instead of liberation. George Washington wasn't beating up on British for the right to open a college! The line isn't Give me education or give me death.
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Truth is the baby of the world. It never gets old.
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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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Once I realised the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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That's easy, to stand in a nightclub, where most of the people that come in, they came to see you.
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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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Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.
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When you look at Hitler and those thugs, you can put Walmart right next to them.
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