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What happens to Black Folks today, happens to White Folks tomorrow.

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Dick Gregory
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: October 12
Died: 2017
Died: August 19
Athletics Competitor
Autobiographer
Comedian
Entrepreneur
Politician
Social Activist
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Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
Richard Claxton Gregory
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Black folks tell their kids they have to be twice as good as a white person? Well, if I tell a child of mine that, or that they have to be careful - that this is what a cop would do if you do this - they think something is wrong with them. I tell them death is better.
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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 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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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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When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the evening - there wasn't no 24-hour news.
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Once I realised the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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Race baiters and discriminators may go underground, but they never move out of town.
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I wouldn't mind paying taxes... if I knew they were going to a friendly country
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Luck is opportunity meeting up with preparation. So you must prepare yourself to be lucky.
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We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class.
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The only good thing about the good old days is they're gone.
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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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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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Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.
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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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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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I feel that the same God-force that is the mother and father of the Pope is also the mother and father of the loneliest wino on the planet.
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Black conservatives have a right to exist, but why would I want to walk around with a swastika on my shirt after the way Hitler done messed it up?
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What price would God demand from the churches for having the audacity to lighten the color of his son's skin, and straighten out his nappy hair?
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