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
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.
baby king lovable love safe telling
King was really telling us it's not about love, it's about being lovable. 'I love you baby and if I can't have you no one else will is frightening,' but once you become lovable we become safe and that's where I think we'll end up.
hell-hath-no-fury hell fury
Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
thinking laughing people
I consider myself always a humorist. And I think anybody who tells jokes or makes people laugh is humor.
comic humorists
I'm not a comic. I'm a humorist.
people easy nightclubs
That's easy, to stand in a nightclub, where most of the people that come in, they came to see you.
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.
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.
health puff conditions
I won't say I'm out of condition now - but I even puff going downstairs.
way kind enough
Some kind of way, we have to say enough is enough.
intelligence afros events
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.
eye lasts moments
At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.
lying years white
Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another.
car cows filters
Eating liver out of a cow's body is like eating the filter out of a car.