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Because you make me laugh don't make you a comic. A comedian is a person who, that's how they make their living.
Dick Gregory
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Dick Gregory
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: October 12
Died: 2017
Died: August 19
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Comedian
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St. Louis
Missouri
Richard Claxton Gregory
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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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The NAACP is a wonderful organization . . . But do you realize if tomorrow morning we had complete integration, all them cats would be outta work?
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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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Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.
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If all you can do is judge a person by their appearance, because you don't have the spirit to judge someone from within, you're in trouble.
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