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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
Autobiographer
Comedian
Entrepreneur
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St. Louis
Missouri
Richard Claxton Gregory
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Martin Luther King taught us all nonviolence. I was told to extend nonviolence to the mother and her calf.
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