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Dick Gregory Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: October 12, 1932

Topics

Dark White Never Neighborhood Santa

Our songs did not transcend being R&B hits. They were R&B hits that white kids were attracted to. And if people bought it, it became rock & roll. That's marketing. Why couldn't it still be R&B? The bass pattern didn't change. The song didn't change. It was still 'Yakety Yak' and 'Searchin'.'

Change People Song Marketing White

It's flattering to people who stop you and say that you've helped them and all. But, again, you know, you've got to stay humble because as quick as you came up, you can come down.

Humble People You Down Stop Know

I must have women - there is nothing unbends the mind like them.

Women Mind Nothing Must Like Them

In college, I interned at a production company and spent a lot of time on sets. I love music videos and felt I could be experimental and hone my craft in that genre, so I started there.

Melina Matsoukas

Love Music Time College Craft

Just do what you love. This is what I am doing.

Angelique Kerber

Love I Am Do What You Love Doing You

I think airports are places of huge human drama. The more I see of it, the more I am convinced that Heathrow is a secret city, with its own history, folklore and mythology. But what has surprised me is the love the people who work there feel for the place. Everyone seems to think they are plugged into something majestic.

Work Love History I Am People City

Somewhere along the line I made the switch and was able to look at the bight side rather than the dark side all the time. Now I look at everything I have and think how lucky I am.

Michelle Pfeiffer

Time I Am Think Look Dark Dark Side

Musical composition, about which I know little, is a complicated art, and some contemporary music may be the equivalent of a complex abstract painting.

Music Art Painting Complicated Know

Literature matters so much to me I can hardly stand it.

Me Stand Literature I Can Matters

Joy, confidence, and security can't begin until we are able to just be ourselves.

Chelsea Manning

Confidence Joy Security Begin Just

I've got an overactive, analytical brain. I get frustrated, impatient, angry with myself. I swear at myself a lot.

Myself Angry Brain Analytical Get

My sister discovered the Beatles when she was about 11 and I'm four years younger. So we had nothing but Beatles paraphernalia. Every night I fell asleep to a different Beatles album.

Christina Ricci

Sister Night Nothing She Years Four

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