Dick Gregory

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

So why would I want to call myself a conservative after the way them white racist thugs have used that word to…

— Dick Gregory

My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn't…

— Dick Gregory

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

Wouldn't it be a helluva joke if all this were really burnt cork and you people were being tolerant for nuthin'?

— Dick Gregory

Once we used to have to crank up our cars, now you can pop it on from inside your house. Everything has…

— Dick Gregory

I was born and raised in St. Louis, and this little town, eight blocks away, place no one ever heard of, a…

— Dick Gregory

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

I chose to be an agitator. And there's one interesting thing about being an agitator - and I tell people - the…

— Dick Gregory

I go to Chinese Christian community. Jesus looks Chinese. I go to Japanese Christian community. Jesus looks Japanese. I go to Brazilian…

— Dick Gregory

Black folks tell their kids they have to be twice as good as a white person? Well, if I tell a child…

— Dick Gregory

“I personally believe breathatarianism to be the highest mode of human living [...] breathing in pure air, absorbing the direct light and…

— Dick Gregory

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

If you can justify killing to eat meat, you can justify the conditions of the ghetto. I cannot justify either one.

— Dick Gregory

I feel that the same God-force that is the mother and father of the Pope is also the mother and father of…

— Dick Gregory