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
ghetto meat killing
If you can justify killing to eat meat, you can justify the conditions of the ghetto. I cannot justify either one.
peace war home
The jelly-bean eating thug says that national defense is important. But national defense starts at home.
athlete class firsts
We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class.
dog feelings politics
Dogs are great assets to candidates, and the feeling seems to be engendered that if a dog loves the candidate, he can't be all that bad.
country mind friendly
I wouldn't mind paying taxes... if I knew they were going to a friendly country
morning cat organization
The NAACP is a wonderful organization . . . But do you realize if tomorrow morning we had complete integration, all them cats would be outta work?
christmas dark white
I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
comedian musician poet
To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
art office compromise
[A politician is] a person skilled in the art of compromise. Usually an elected official who has compromised to get nominated, compromised to get elected, and compromised repeatedly to stay in office.
mom mother father
When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.
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.
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.
race relays
Life isn't a race. It's a relay.
funny-sarcastic alcohol drug
If 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.