Dick Gregory quotes are thought-provoking, memorable and inspiring. From views on society and politics to thoughts on love and life, Dick Gregory has a lot to say. In this list we present the 21 best Dick Gregory quotes, in no particular order. Let yourself get inspired!
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Dick Gregory quotes
No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That’s already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.
— Dick Gregory
They told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.
— Dick Gregory, Nigger
Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: ‘We don’t serve colored people here.’ “I said: ‘that’s all right, I don’t eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.
— Dick Gregory
Momma, a welfare cheater. A criminal who couldn’t stand to se her kids go hungry, or grow up in slumbs and end up mugging people in dar corners. I guess the system didn’t want her to get off relief, the way it kept sending social workers around to be sure Momma wasn’t trying to make things better.
— Dick Gregory
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
— Dick Gregory
I won’t say I’m out of condition now – but I even puff going downstairs.
— Dick Gregory
I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighbourhood after dark.
— Dick Gregory
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 heard a business person say, ‘If I couldn’t get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I’d do it for free’?
— Dick Gregory
You know, I always say white is not a colour, white is an attitude, and if you haven’t got trillions of dollars in the bank that you don’t need, you can’t be white.
— Dick Gregory
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 tries to secede.
— Dick Gregory
It’s cool to be healthy.
— 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 a Christian, she would stomp you to death.
— Dick Gregory
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.
— 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 wrong.
— Dick Gregory
We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn’t think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.
— Dick Gregory
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.
— Dick Gregory
Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.
— Dick Gregory
I buy about $1, 500 worth of papers every month. Not that I trust them. I’m looking for the crack in the fabric.
— Dick Gregory
In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it’s a sport.
— Dick Gregory
When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It’s not enough, but it helps.
— Dick Gregory
People with high blood pressure, diabetes – those are conditions brought about by life style. If you change the life style, those conditions will leave.
— Dick Gregory
I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
— Dick Gregory
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