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Life isn't a race. It's a relay.
Dick Gregory
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Dick Gregory
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: October 12
Died: 2017
Died: August 19
Athletics Competitor
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St. Louis
Missouri
Richard Claxton Gregory
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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 you can justify killing to eat meat, you can justify the conditions of the ghetto. I cannot justify either one.
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Once I realised the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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Fear and God do not occupy the same space.
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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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The funniest jokes you know aren't from comics but relatives, friends - from your life. That's the funniest stuff.
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We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.
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I won't say I'm out of condition now - but I even puff going downstairs.
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I wouldn't mind paying taxes... if I knew they were going to a friendly country
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When you look at Hitler and those thugs, you can put Walmart right next to them.
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If it wasn't for Abe Lincoln, I'd still be on the open market.
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...Humans were the only creatures in the world that ate their food cooked. You'd never find a Gorilla frying up some bananas for dinner or a lion charcoal-broiling a zebra steak. Cats don't often run to the oven with a mouse or bird they've captured, and a dog wouldn't naturally prepare its rabbit dinner in a stew.
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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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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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