Quotes By Dick Gregory

I used to get letters saying, 'I didn't know black children and white children were the same.'

To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.

Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can't afford it.

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.

When I go through the airport and see white women walking through the airport barefooted, like athlete's feet don't exist, there's something wrong.

I tell people, 'If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.'

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

I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted.

Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.

People with high blood pressure, diabetes - those are conditions brought about by life style. If you change the life style, those conditions will leave.

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

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

When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.

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.

When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the evening - there wasn't no 24-hour news.

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

Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.

We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class.

I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.

It's cool to be healthy.

You know, I always say white is not a colour, white is an attitude, and if you haven't got trillions of dollars in the bank that you don't need, you can't be white.

When I was a boy, I was taught never to use insulting expressions like, 'I've been gypped,' or, 'He welshed on the deal.'

I buy about $1,500 worth of papers every month. Not that I trust them. I'm looking for the crack in the fabric.

Every holiday on the calendar, I check in a hotel and fast - I don't eat, I don't drink, I don't talk.

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.

If you take 12 waters from the coconut - not the ones you buy in the store, although that's good - but the fresh coconuts, the little brown ones with the three eyes, if you take 12 of those within 24 hours, your blood will go back to the way it was when you were born.

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

If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they'd have to bring out the tanks to control you.

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.