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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

Topics: Against Because Books Cavalry Fair Great History History Books Indians Massacre Root Think Used Victory Won

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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.

~Dick Gregory

Topics: Delight Loss Much Possession Riches Torment Us

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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

Topics: Calendar Check Drink Eat Every Fast Holiday Hotel Talk

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I'm not a comic. I'm a humorist.

~Dick Gregory

Topics: Comic Humorist

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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

Topics: Christian Death Ever Her Jesus Lady Lived Mother Planet She Stomp Sweetest Tell Tried Who Would You

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

~Dick Gregory

Topics: Bottled How How Much Information Keep Limit Much Up You

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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

Topics: America Country Evils Faults Forest Know Our Reach Rising See Setting Still Sun Through Whether You

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

~Dick Gregory

Topics: Fast Good Got Laugh Making Once People Realised Value Very

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

~Dick Gregory

Topics: Go Had Hate Home Learned Never School Shame

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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

Topics: Airport American Any Bald Because Belly Bloated Businessmen Come Dawned Ethiopia Got Head Heads Malnutrition Me Person Realized Running See Starving Tell Through Too You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Comedian

Born: October 12th, 1932

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