179 Quotes by Dick Gregory

America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don’t misuse a household pet.

That’s easy, to stand in a nightclub, where most of the people that come in, they came to see you.

Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It’s the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it’s a sport.

I won’t say I’m out of condition now – but I even puff going downstairs.

There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.

Makes you wonder. When I left St. Louis, I was making five dollars a night. Now I’m getting $5,000 a week – for saying the same things out loud I used to say under my breath.

Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.

When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It’s not good enough, but it helps. But I got tired of hearing Momma say, God, fix it so I can pay the rent; God, fix it so the lights will be turned on; God, fix it so the pot is full. I kind of felt it really wasn’t His job.