It’s cool to be healthy.
DICK GREGORYIt’s cool to be healthy.
DICK GREGORYPeople with high blood pressure, diabetes – those are conditions brought about by lifestyle. If you change the lifestyle, those conditions will leave.
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 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 GREGORYWhen 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.
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 GREGORYThey told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.
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 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 GREGORYOnce I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
DICK GREGORYHome was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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 am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp – just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.
DICK GREGORYMy belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
DICK GREGORYLove is very dangerous if you just have love and don’t have the ability to be lovable.
DICK GREGORY