When you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.
DICK GREGORYWhen you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.
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 GREGORYI tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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 GREGORYThe most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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 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 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 GREGORYI never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
DICK GREGORYIn most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago, it’s a sport.
DICK GREGORYYou know, I always say white is not a color, 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.
DICK GREGORYPeople with high blood pressure, diabetes – those are conditions brought about by lifestyle. If you change the lifestyle, those conditions will leave.
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 GREGORYIt was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn’t stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.
DICK GREGORYMy belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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 GREGORY