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There's a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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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Comedian
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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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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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At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.
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America has the mightiest military on the planet, and they didn't get there with entertainers.
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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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People with high blood pressure, diabetes - those are conditions brought about by life style. If you change the life style, those conditions will leave.
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What happens to Black Folks today, happens to White Folks tomorrow.
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Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother's milk.
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Truth is the baby of the world. It never gets old.
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Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.
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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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Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.
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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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Eating liver out of a cow's body is like eating the filter out of a car.
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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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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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Because you make me laugh don't make you a comic. A comedian is a person who, that's how they make their living.
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Love is man's natural endowment, but he doesn't know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power.
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Luck is opportunity meeting up with preparation. So you must prepare yourself to be lucky.
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