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Dick Gregory

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No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That's already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.


— Dick Gregory


#advice #broken-families #divorce #hope #kids

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.


— Dick Gregory


#because #believed #claus #come #dark

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


#am #backside #bigots #black #enjoying

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


#bring #caffeine #control #days #market

In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.


— Dick Gregory


#country #evils #faults #forest #know

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


#between #candidate #forgotten #like #made

I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.


— Dick Gregory


#had #hate #home #i #learned

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


#being #expert #just #makes #medicine

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


#captain #charged #dollars #down #goes

When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.


— Dick Gregory


#enough #father #god #good #good mother






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Until then Gregory had worked mostly at small clubs with predominantly black audiences. Gregory drew on current events especially racial issues for much of his material: "Segregation is not all bad. Career
After completing military service Gregory performed as a comedian in small primarily black-patronized nightclubs while working for the United States Postal Service during the daytime.

Richard Claxton "Dick" Gregory (born October 12 1932) is an American comedian social activist social critic writer and entrepreneur. Gregory is an influential American comic who has used his performance skills to convey to both white and black audiences his political message on civil rights. His social satire helped change the way European-Americans perceived African-American comedians since he first performed in public.

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