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Dick Gregory

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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 #ever #her #jesus #lady

Once I realised the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.


— Dick Gregory


#good #got #i #laugh #making

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


#blood #blood pressure #brought #change #conditions

There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.


— Dick Gregory


#how #information #keep #limit #much

There's a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.


— Dick Gregory


#gives #god #inside #live #will

To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.


— Dick Gregory


#comedian #great #like #me #musician

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


#chicago #country #duty #looked #most

When I go through the airport and see white women walking through the airport barefooted, like athlete's feet don't exist, there's something wrong.


— Dick Gregory


#athlete #exist #feet #go #i

When I was a boy, I was taught never to use insulting expressions like, 'I've been gypped,' or, 'He welshed on the deal.'


— Dick Gregory


#boy #deal #expressions #i #insulting

You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X.


— Dick Gregory


#avenue #brand #done #harlem #know






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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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