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You got to die of something because if you die of nothing, they won't pay your insurance.
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
Politician
Social Activist
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St. Louis
Missouri
Richard Claxton Gregory
Something
Insurance
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Nothing
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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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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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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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The only good thing about the good old days is they're gone.
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When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.
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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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In the South they don't mind how close I get, so long as I don't get too big. In the North they don't mind how big I get, so long as I don't get too close.
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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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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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I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
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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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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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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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