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What happens to Black Folks today, happens to White Folks tomorrow.
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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Race baiters and discriminators may go underground, but they never move out of town.
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Black Americans are the only people in history who are for education instead of liberation. George Washington wasn't beating up on British for the right to open a college! The line isn't Give me education or give me death.
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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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Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another.
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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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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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I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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If it wasn't for Abe Lincoln, I'd still be on the open market.
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America has the mightiest military on the planet, and they didn't get there with entertainers.
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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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Eating liver out of a cow's body is like eating the filter out of a car.
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Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother's milk.
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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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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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You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X.
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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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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.
Dick Gregory
Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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Life isn't a race. It's a relay.
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