179 Quotes by Dick Gregory
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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they’d have to bring out the tanks to control you.
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If you take 12 waters from the coconut – not the ones you buy in the store, although that’s good – but the fresh coconuts, the little brown ones with the three eyes, if you take 12 of those within 24 hours, your blood will go back to the way it was when you were born.
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I buy about $1,500 worth of papers every month. Not that I trust them. I’m looking for the crack in the fabric.
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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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Momma, a welfare cheater. A criminal who couldn’t stand to se her kids go hungry, or grow up in slumbs and end up mugging people in dar corners. I guess the system didn’t want her to get off relief, the way it kept sending social workers around to be sure Momma wasn’t trying to make things better.
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The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
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When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It’s not enough, but it helps.
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I didn’t realize, when I decided to be a comic, that a black person had never been allowed to stand flat-footed in America and talk to white folks. It never happened before.
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