Dick Gregory

• "You know, I always say white is not a colour, white is an attitude, and if you haven't got trillions of dollars in the bank that you don't need, you can't be white.“
• "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'?“
• "People with high blood pressure, diabetes - those are conditions brought about by life style. If you change the life style, those conditions will leave.“
• "It's cool to be healthy.“
• "My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn't a Christian, she would stomp you to death.“
• "When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.“
• "When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.“
• "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.“
• "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.“
• "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.“
• "I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.“
• "Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.“
• "When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.“
• "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.“
• "In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.“
• "Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.“
• "I buy about $1,500 worth of papers every month. Not that I trust them. I'm looking for the crack in the fabric.“
• "And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.“

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