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Dick Gregory
American
Comedian
Born:
Oct 12
,
1932
Black
Me
Mother
People
White
You
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Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.
Dick Gregory
Relationship
Marriage
Political
Made
Promises
Beginning
Between
Voter
Like
Vows
Quickly
Candidate
Forgotten
Much
People with high blood pressure, diabetes - those are conditions brought about by life style. If you change the life style, those conditions will leave.
Dick Gregory
Life
You
Change
People
Diabetes
Will
Pressure
Style
Those
High
High Blood Pressure
Brought
About
Leave
Conditions
Blood
Blood Pressure
I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
Dick Gregory
Home
Hate
School
Shame
Never
Had
Learned
Go
There's a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
Dick Gregory
God
You
Will
Live
Inside
Gives
Force
Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.
Dick Gregory
Love
You
Love Is
Dangerous
Ability
Very
Lovable
Just
I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
Dick Gregory
Dark
White
Neighborhood
Would
Never
Knew
Come
Because
Dude
After
Santa
Santa Claus
Believed
I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.
Dick Gregory
Man
Black
King
White
Think
Those
Backside
Licking
About
Martin
Martin Luther
Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King Jr
New
Am
Just
Bigots
Stamp
Really
Enjoying
Luther
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.
Dick Gregory
You
Control
Alcohol
Took
Market
Out
Caffeine
Days
Tanks
Off
Six
Six Days
Bring
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.
Dick Gregory
Great
History
Victory
Think
Books
Indians
Fair
Massacre
Because
Cavalry
Won
History Books
Against
Root
Used
Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother's milk.
Dick Gregory
Mother
Only
The Only Thing
Planet
Coconut
Milk
Thing
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.
Dick Gregory
Buy
Good
You
Eyes
Will
Three
Waters
Back
Way
Those
Born
Brown
Take
Hours
Although
Within
Fresh
Go
Were
Blood
Store
Little
Your
Coconut
When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.
Dick Gregory
Me
Army
Lost
Down
Charged
Dollars
Ship
Goes
Captain
Navy
Why
Rifle
Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
Dick Gregory
Hell
Liberal
Fury
Hath
Like
Scorned
Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.
Dick Gregory
You
Situation
Medicine
Sick
More
Qualify
Makes
Understand
Than
Any
Just
Being
Expert
Race
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.
Dick Gregory
Attitude
You
White
Say
Colour
Know
Always
Got
Dollars
Bank
Need
I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted.
Dick Gregory
White
Finally
Restaurant
Counter
Integrated
Waited
Years
Wanted
Eleven
My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that's never been explained.
Dick Gregory
You
Never
Know
Been
Explained
Certain
Certain Things
Belief
Things
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.
Dick Gregory
Death
You
Mother
Christian
Tell
Would
Tried
She
Stomp
Lady
Planet
Sweetest
Who
Lived
Ever
Her
Jesus
Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
Dick Gregory
Possession
Torment
Delight
Loss
Us
Much
Riches
I wouldn't mind paying taxes - if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
Dick Gregory
Mind
Country
Knew
Were
Friendly
Going
Taxes
Paying
There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
Dick Gregory
You
Bottled
Limit
How
How Much
Up
Information
Much
Keep
It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn't stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.
Dick Gregory
Work
You
Law
Dance
Black
White
Could
Talk
Sing
Unwritten
Comics
Permitted
Were
Stand
Nightclubs
Every holiday on the calendar, I check in a hotel and fast - I don't eat, I don't drink, I don't talk.
Dick Gregory
Every
Eat
Drink
Hotel
Check
Talk
Calendar
Holiday
Fast
To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
Dick Gregory
Great
Me
Poet
Bit
Musician
Seeing
Like
Comedian
Really
Watching
In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.
Dick Gregory
Politics
Voting
Country
Duty
Most
Looked
Sport
Chicago
Places
Right
Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can't afford it.
Dick Gregory
People
Everything
Look
Terms
Afford
Should
Who
Millions
Millions Of People
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