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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
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St. Louis
Missouri
Richard Claxton Gregory
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Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you would never collect the money. At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.
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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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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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I wouldn't mind paying taxes... if I knew they were going to a friendly country
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I consider myself always a humorist. And I think anybody who tells jokes or makes people laugh is humor.
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We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.
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Truth is the baby of the world. It never gets old.
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Once I realised the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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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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I go to Chinese Christian community. Jesus looks Chinese. I go to Japanese Christian community. Jesus looks Japanese. I go to Brazilian Christian community. Jesus looks Brazilian. How come in America Jesus looks white?
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To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
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I would have painted the White House black. I would have!
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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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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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Some kind of way, we have to say enough is enough.
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