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
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.
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.
gone good-things good-old-days
The only good thing about the good old days is they're gone.
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.
white years eleven
I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted.
running gun thinking
I don't know why America always thinks she has to run all around the world forcing people to take our way of governance at the barrel of a gun. When you've got something really good, you don't have to force it on people. They will steal it!
respect confused rights
Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.
country america evil
In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.
pain animal rights
Because I'm a civil rights activist, I am also an animal rights activist. Animals and humans suffer and die alike. Violence causes the same pain, the same spilling of blood, the same stench of death, the same arrogant, cruel and vicious taking of life. We shouldn't be a part of it.
america giving black-history
America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misuse a household pet.
mean justice social-justice
Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
mind poverty poor
Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.
eye blood water
If you take 12 waters from the coconut - not the ones you buy in the store, although that's good - but the fresh coconuts, the little brown ones with the three eyes, if you take 12 of those within 24 hours, your blood will go back to the way it was when you were born.
christian jesus white
I go to Chinese Christian community. Jesus looks Chinese. I go to Japanese Christian community. Jesus looks Japanese. I go to Brazilian Christian community. Jesus looks Brazilian. How come in America Jesus looks white?