Dick Gregory
Dick Gregory
Richard Claxton "Dick" Gregoryis an American civil rights activist, social critic, writer, entrepreneur, and comedian...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth12 October 1932
CitySt. Louis, MO
CountryUnited States of America
blood people style
People with high blood pressure, diabetes - those are conditions brought about by life style. If you change the life style, those conditions will leave.
running airports romance
I went to Ethiopia, and it dawned on me that you can tell a starving, malnourished person because they've got a bloated belly and a bald head. And I realized that if you come through any American airport and see businessmen running through with bloated bellies and bald heads, that's malnutrition, too.
healthy
It's cool to be healthy.
people stealing force
When you've got something really good, you don't have to force it on people. They will steal it!
medicine race sick
Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.
abe stills ifs
If it wasn't for Abe Lincoln, I'd still be on the open market.
taken kids home
No 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.
love-is lovable dangerous
Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.
money eye lasts
Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you would never collect the money. At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.
mom mother father
When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.
gone good-things good-old-days
The only good thing about the good old days is they're gone.
running dog zebras
...Humans were the only creatures in the world that ate their food cooked. You'd never find a Gorilla frying up some bananas for dinner or a lion charcoal-broiling a zebra steak. Cats don't often run to the oven with a mouse or bird they've captured, and a dog wouldn't naturally prepare its rabbit dinner in a stew.
baby truth world
Truth is the baby of the world. It never gets old.
laughing people very-good
Once I realised the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.