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
white black today
What happens to Black Folks today, happens to White Folks tomorrow.
eye lasts moments
At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.
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A friend of mine who works for naval intelligence said an aerial satellite revealed that 1.9 million attended the event in 1995. But if they would have had a rumble at the march the newspapers would have said that 75 million Afro-Americans were there.
way kind enough
Some kind of way, we have to say enough is enough.
long mind bigs
In the South they don't mind how close I get, so long as I don't get too big. In the North they don't mind how big I get, so long as I don't get too close.
race names two
People keep telling me about the white race and the black race - and it really doesn't make sense. I played Miami, met a fellow two shades darker than me - and his name was Ginsberg! Took my place in two sit-in demonstrations - nobody knew the difference. The he tried for a third lunch counter and blew the whole bit ... asked for blintzes.
holiday calendars drink
Every holiday on the calendar, I check in a hotel and fast - I don't eat, I don't drink, I don't talk.
baseball humorous men
Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.
hell-hath-no-fury hell fury
Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
morning nbc firsts
When 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.
law white black
It 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.
comic humorists
I'm not a comic. I'm a humorist.
health puff conditions
I won't say I'm out of condition now - but I even puff going downstairs.
lasts british heard
You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'?