Words matter. These are the best Dick Gregory Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
You hear entertainers all the time, saying, ‘If I couldn’t get paid for this, I’d do it for free.’ When’s the last time you ever heard a business person say, ‘If I couldn’t get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I’d do it for free’?
You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We’re the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X.
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.
When I was a boy, I was taught never to use insulting expressions like, ‘I’ve been gypped,’ or, ‘He welshed on the deal.’
Once I realised the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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.
I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn’t have what I wanted.
Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can’t afford it.
Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don’t have the ability to be lovable.
If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
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.
Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another.
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.
My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
I never thought I’d see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we was in Mississippi.
When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.
It’s cool to be healthy.
Every holiday on the calendar, I check in a hotel and fast – I don’t eat, I don’t drink, I don’t talk.
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.
I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
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.’
People with high blood pressure, diabetes – those are conditions brought about by life style. If you change the life style, those conditions will leave.
Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.
To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.
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.