Once I realised the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast. — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people. — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
When you've got something really good, you don't have to force it on people. They will steal it! — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
People with high blood pressure, diabetes - those are conditions brought about by life style. If you change the life style, those… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
Wouldn't it be a helluva joke if all this were really burnt cork and you people were being tolerant for nuthin'? — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
Black Americans are the only people in history who are for education instead of liberation. George Washington wasn't beating up on British… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
People keep telling me about the white race and the black race - and it really doesn't make sense. I played Miami,… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
If I had to write down the most important people in the history of this planet, No.1 would be (abolitionist) John Brown.… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
The only thing I like about St. Louis is it has the best zoo in America, in Forest Park. Washington University is… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
I chose to be an agitator. And there's one interesting thing about being an agitator - and I tell people - the… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: 'We… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
White folks are the luckiest people: Finally a black president and he's a behaved one. Went to the best schools, best colleges,… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
My wife and I went to jail in Selma. The difference when I was back there recently? White folks? No. Black folks… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
That's easy, to stand in a nightclub, where most of the people that come in, they came to see you. — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
I consider myself always a humorist. And I think anybody who tells jokes or makes people laugh is humor. — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious. — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can't afford it. — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
I tell people, 'If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.' — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
I don't know why America always thinks she has to run all around the world forcing people to take our way of… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that's never been explained. — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
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… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
What price would God demand from the churches for having the audacity to lighten the color of his son's skin, and straighten out his… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
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… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
Eating liver out of a cow's body is like eating the filter out of a car. — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that. — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
“Dear Momma―Wherever you are, if ever you hear the word "nigger" again, remember they are advertising my book.” — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
The NAACP is a wonderful organization . . . But do you realize if tomorrow morning we had complete integration, all them cats would be outta work? — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
I used to get letters saying, 'I didn't know black children and white children were the same.' — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
People keep telling me about the white race and the black race - and it really doesn't make sense. I played Miami, met a… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
