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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

Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned. ↗

— Dick Gregory

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If it wasn't for Abe Lincoln, I'd still be on the open market. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#i #lincoln #market #open #open market

I went to Ethiopia, and it dawned on me that you can tell a starving, malnourished person because they've got a bloated belly and a bald head. And I realized that if you come through any American airport and see businessmen running through with bloated bellies and bald heads, that's malnutrition, too. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#american #any #bald #because #bellies

In some strange way, this was meant to be. ↗

— Joel Gretsch

#meant to be #some #strange #strange way #way

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. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#anybody #before #black #folks #history

My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that's never been explained. ↗

— Dick Gregory

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Now here's what I'm saying: I've always believed that every other month we hear about compromisation of bank records, I think that's the CIA and the FBI. Now let me tell you why I'm saying this. I don't believe no insignificant pip-squeak is going to be able to pull this off month after month and we can't find out what's going on. ↗

— Dick Gregory

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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

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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

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