America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don’t misuse a household pet.
DICK GREGORYAmerica will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don’t misuse a household pet.
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 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 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 GREGORYPeople with high blood pressure, diabetes – those are conditions brought about by lifestyle. If you change the lifestyle, those conditions will leave.
DICK GREGORYNo kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That’s already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.
DICK GREGORYI personally would say that the quickest way to wipe out a group of people is to put them on a soul food diet.
DICK GREGORYRiches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
DICK GREGORYIf all you can do is judge a person by their appearance because you don’t have the spirit to judge someone from within, you’re in trouble.
DICK GREGORYEverything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can’t afford it.
DICK GREGORYThe most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
DICK GREGORYIt’s cool to be healthy.
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 GREGORYRevolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
DICK GREGORYLove is very dangerous if you just have love and don’t have the ability to be lovable.
DICK GREGORYI wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
DICK GREGORY