179 Quotes by Dick Gregory

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 nappy hair?

I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.

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.

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.

I believe young voters will either vote for Obama or not vote at all. So the problem is not Obama the problem is the system. If you think about how mess up this country is, most folk really don’t have choices.

Why are black folks singing Amazing Grace which is a song about a white slaver’s conversion?

If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.

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 rights movement when we was in Mississippi.

Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can’t afford it.