Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out. — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
Why are black folks singing Amazing Grace which is a song about a white slaver's conversion? — 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
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
Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
I didn't realize, when I decided to be a comic, that a black person had never been allowed to stand flat-footed in… — 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
So why would I want to call myself a conservative after the way them white racist thugs have used that word to… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside… — 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
Black folks tell their kids they have to be twice as good as a white person? Well, if I tell a child… — 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
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
I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted. — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark. — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
When I go through the airport and see white women walking through the airport barefooted, like athlete's feet don't exist, there's something… — 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
I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
I go to Chinese Christian community. Jesus looks Chinese. I go to Japanese Christian community. Jesus looks Japanese. I go to Brazilian… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
When I went south in the 1960s, I knew I could die. If I went down there and did what I did… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance,… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
You know, I always say white is not a colour, white is an attitude, and if you haven't got trillions of dollars… — 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
