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    Longevity, for one thing. "Bob Hope lived to get 100" Gregory said. “But I think that was because Jesse Jackson, for 40 years, kept saying ‘Keep hope alive!’” Gregory was ranked No. 81 on a Comedy Central list of the 100 greatest comedians, just below Sinbad (78) but just above Howie Mandel (82). Full Article at PopMatters
    Bob Hope lived to get 100
    – Dick Gregory SOURCE: PopMatters 3 weeks ago
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Dick Gregory on Obama, longevity and comic geniuses
  1. Chicago is the only town in America, and New York is the only city in America. When you’re in a town, you have more leeway. You can take your time.
    SOURCE: PopMatters 3 weeks ago
  2. To be down there and hear them old white folks (say), ‘Welcome home, Mr. Gregory.’ Wow, man. Have I died and gone to heaven?
    SOURCE: PopMatters 3 weeks ago
  3. They’re supposed to be so bad. Here, this little Hefner comes through and said, ‘Come on in.’
    SOURCE: PopMatters 3 weeks ago
  4. There’s just nothing like Dick Gregory ... He represents such a long slice of American history and American social criticism and all the different forms that it took. With someone like Dick Gregory you have an unbroken line from the mid-‘60s into today.
    SOURCE: PopMatters 3 weeks ago
  5. Chicago was just a great proving ground ... In New York, you had to be tested and proven. You know, they had an attitude. But in Chicago, just bring it to me, man.
    SOURCE: PopMatters 3 weeks ago
  6. The reason is, Bush scared white folks so bad with the war and the economy ... they forgot they wasn’t supposed to vote for a Negro.
    SOURCE: PopMatters 3 weeks ago
  7. Back then about 93 percent of all nightclubs were owned by the mob and they didn’t have the (fortitude)
    SOURCE: PopMatters 3 weeks ago
  8. It caught everyone by surprise ... If two white dudes were running in 2000, and one wins and the other one stole it, you almost think that would happen to a black.
    SOURCE: PopMatters 3 weeks ago
  9. That would have been an insult ... We weren’t out there, black folks and white folks, going to jail and getting killed, for a black president. We were out there fighting for the least amongst us to have the right to vote. Out of that came a black president.
    – Dick Gregory SOURCE: PopMatters 3 weeks ago
  10. I think about how I aggravated them white folk down there
    – Dick Gregory SOURCE: PopMatters 3 weeks ago

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