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Audiences feel no hatred from me. Because I'm not bitter.
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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What happens to Black Folks today, happens to White Folks tomorrow.
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America has the mightiest military on the planet, and they didn't get there with entertainers.
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I won't say I'm out of condition now - but I even puff going downstairs.
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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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That's easy, to stand in a nightclub, where most of the people that come in, they came to see you.
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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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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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The United States is the most dishonest, ungodly, unspiritual nation that ever existed in the history of the planet.
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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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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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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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Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.
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When I went south in the 1960s, I knew I could die. If I went down there and did what I did up in Chicago and made all of those hatin' white folks laugh, then I would have been defeated.
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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 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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