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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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Life isn't a race. It's a relay.
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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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I was born and raised in St. Louis, and this little town, eight blocks away, place no one ever heard of, a black man there commands the attention of the world for months? That ain't my world.
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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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The United States is the most dishonest, ungodly, unspiritual nation that ever existed in the history of the planet.
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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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I chose to be an agitator. And there's one interesting thing about being an agitator - and I tell people - the next time you put your underwear in the washing machine, take the agitator out, and all you're going to end up with is some dirty, wet drawers.
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Revolution ain't nothing but an extent of evolution Evolution is a fact of nature. So when old folks tell me that they don't understand hip hop and the music is too loud, well I guess it means you're not supposed to be in there.
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The funniest jokes you know aren't from comics but relatives, friends - from your life. That's the funniest stuff.
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Love is man's natural endowment, but he doesn't know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power.
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Because I'm a civil rights activist, I am also an animal rights activist. Animals and humans suffer and die alike. Violence causes the same pain, the same spilling of blood, the same stench of death, the same arrogant, cruel and vicious taking of life. We shouldn't be a part of it.
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I wouldn't mind paying taxes... if I knew they were going to a friendly country
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Truth is the baby of the world. It never gets old.
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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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I would have painted the White House black. I would have!
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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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Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.
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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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Pets are found to suffer from all the ailments known to the human.
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