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
belonging black civil confused folks freedom given human people
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.
looking
You're looking at something that is going to revolutionize the whole world.
people accepting obvious
The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
judging spirit trouble
If 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.
white people lasts
Last 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.
space
Fear and God do not occupy the same space.
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.
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.
information limits
There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
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.
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.