179 Quotes by 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.

Eating liver out of a cow’s body is like eating the filter out of a car.

Because I’m a civil rights activist, I am also an animal rights activist. Animals and humans suffer and die alike. Violence causes the same pain, the same spilling of blood, the same stench of death, the same arrogant, cruel and vicious taking of life. We shouldn’t be a part of it.

Because you make me laugh don’t make you a comic. A comedian is a person who, that’s how they make their living.

Every holiday on the calendar, I check in a hotel and fast – I don’t eat, I don’t drink, I don’t talk.

Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature. So when old folks tell me that they don’t understand hip hop and the music is too loud, well I guess it means you’re not supposed to be in there.

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

When I was a boy, I was taught never to use insulting expressions like, ‘I’ve been gypped,’ or, ‘He welshed on the deal.’

In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don’t know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.