Dick Gregory Quotes

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• I went to Ethiopia, and it dawned on me that you can tell a starving, malnourished person because they've got a bloated belly and a…
• Every holiday on the calendar, I check in a hotel and fast - I don't eat, I don't drink, I don't talk.
• To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
• If it wasn't for Abe Lincoln, I'd still be on the open market.
• I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted.
• And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part…
• You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X.
• We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer,…
• I buy about $1,500 worth of papers every month. Not that I trust them. I'm looking for the crack in the fabric.
• I used to get letters saying, 'I didn't know black children and white children were the same.'
• My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that's never been explained.
• Once I realised the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
• When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the evening - there…
• 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 wrong.
• When I was a boy, I was taught never to use insulting expressions like, 'I've been gypped,' or, 'He welshed on the deal.'
• 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 ever…
• I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was during the civil…
• It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn't…
• Now here's what I'm saying: I've always believed that every other month we hear about compromisation of bank records, I think that's the CIA and…
• The only good thing about the good old days is they're gone.

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