Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.
DICK GREGORYPoor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.
DICK GREGORYJust being a Negro doesn’t qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.
DICK GREGORYI never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
DICK GREGORYRevolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
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 GREGORYIt’s cool to be healthy.
DICK GREGORYIf it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
DICK GREGORYPolitical promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.
DICK GREGORYIf 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.
DICK GREGORYThe only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
DICK GREGORYLast time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: ‘We don’t serve colored people here.’ I said: ‘that’s all right, I don’t eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.
DICK GREGORYThere’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
DICK GREGORYI tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
DICK GREGORYPolitical promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.
DICK GREGORYWhen you’ve got something really good, you don’t have to force it on people. They will steal it!
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 GREGORY