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Dick Gregory Quotes

Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Job Better America You White Out

I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my books - just in case I up and die.

Anatoly Rybakov

History People Die Write Up Just

The only things that smell good are fat and sugar. Tofu being boiled doesn't smell good. Anything that smells good is fattening.

Good Fat Sugar Smell Anything Being

'Five Easy Pieces,' 'Easy Rider' - those are indie pictures; those were not studio pictures. They had relationships with studio distribution, but they were indies.

Michael Douglas

Easy Pictures Relationships Pieces

As a black actress, all I was offered in British film was the best friend role, whereas in TV I was offered a whole spectrum of parts.

Friend Best Best Friend Black Role

I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Love Society Wish Sex See Where

I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it.

Moon Church Wedding Understand Way

Some advice I would give myself from the Spirit Squad years - try and get taller.

Myself Advice Squad Spirit Try Get

When I was 8, I began to study ballet. In seventh grade, my mother took me into New York to study at the School of American Ballet. I loved ballet - its precision, the escape from uncertainty, and the music.

Mother Music School New York Me New

I have no memory for what happens in what books. I don't know when I might remember a scene, but beats me what book it's in because there are 14 of them now.

Memory Me Book Remember Know Now

It wasn't until I saw 'Rocky' that I realized movies could affect people beyond mere entertainment.

People Movies Entertainment Beyond

I'm not a xenophobe - I think immigration is a good thing for most countries - but they transmute the foibles of their native tongues into English in a way that's difficult to figure out.

Good Think Immigration Way Difficult

My mother passed in 2002. That was a blow like no other blow.

Anthony Ray Hinton

Mother Like Other Blow Passed

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