It’s cool to be healthy.
DICK GREGORYIt’s cool to be healthy.
DICK GREGORYWhen 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.
DICK GREGORYI used to get letters saying, ‘I didn’t know black children and white children were the same.’
DICK GREGORYMy 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.
DICK GREGORYMy belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
DICK GREGORYAnd we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.
DICK GREGORYI 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 were in Mississippi.
DICK GREGORYOne of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
DICK GREGORYAmerica will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don’t misuse a household pet.
DICK GREGORYRiches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
DICK GREGORYWhen you’ve got something really good, you don’t have to force it on people. They will steal it!
DICK GREGORYI believe young voters will either vote for Obama or not vote at all. So the problem is not Obama the problem is the system. If you think about how mess up this country is, most folk really don’t have choices.
DICK GREGORYTo me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
DICK GREGORYYou 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.
DICK GREGORYIn 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.
DICK GREGORYI personally believe breathatarianism to be the highest mode of human living breathing in pure air, absorbing the direct light and energies of the sun, bathing in pure water I look at the obituaries every morning and ain’t nobody listed but you eaters.
DICK GREGORY