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Laughter is the best way to release tensions and fears.
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
Social Critic
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
Richard Claxton Gregory
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Whenever the dollar is held supreme and capitalistic interests dominate, a higher value will always be placed upon property rights than upon human rights.
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Once I realised the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.
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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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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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Fear and God do not occupy the same space.
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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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Audiences feel no hatred from me. Because I'm not bitter.
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Life isn't a race. It's a relay.
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I was born and raised in St. Louis, and this little town, eight blocks away, place no one ever heard of, a black man there commands the attention of the world for months? That ain't my world.
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I believe young voters will either vote for Obama or not vote at all. So the problem is not Obama the problem is the system. If you think about how mess up this country is most folk really don’t have choices.
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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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Martin Luther King taught us all nonviolence. I was told to extend nonviolence to the mother and her calf.
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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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America has the mightiest military on the planet, and they didn't get there with entertainers.
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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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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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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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