My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
DICK GREGORYMy belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
DICK GREGORYWhen you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It’s not enough, but it helps.
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 GREGORYIf democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
DICK GREGORYMy belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
DICK GREGORYWhen you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.
DICK GREGORYI used to get letters saying, ‘I didn’t know black children and white children were the same.’
DICK GREGORYWhen I was a boy, I was taught never to use insulting expressions like, ‘I’ve been gypped,’ or, ‘He welshed on the deal.’
DICK GREGORYI never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
DICK GREGORYEven though he understood the depths of racism and black oppression, Ali lived his life as a free man—a free loving and lovable man.
DICK GREGORYThere’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
DICK GREGORYRevolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
DICK GREGORYI waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn’t have what I wanted.
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 GREGORYThey told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.
DICK GREGORYWe 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.
DICK GREGORY