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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
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Comedian
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Politician
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St. Louis
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Richard Claxton Gregory
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Don't have a high school diploma? You're in my Cabinet. Why? For 200 years, a lot of Cabinets have existed in our government. Powerful men. Well-educated. So let's try something totally new.
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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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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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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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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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Eating liver out of a cow's body is like eating the filter out of a car.
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Life isn't a race. It's a relay.
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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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Why are black folks singing Amazing Grace which is a song about a white slaver's conversion?
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Race baiters and discriminators may go underground, but they never move out of town.
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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 never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
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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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Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother's milk.
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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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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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Luck is opportunity meeting up with preparation. So you must prepare yourself to be lucky.
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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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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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