179 Quotes by 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."

"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'?"

"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."

"I wouldn't mind paying taxes... if I knew they were going to a friendly country"

"We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class."

"I used to get letters saying, 'I didn't know black children and white children were the same.'"

"I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark."

"Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned."

"Every holiday on the calendar, I check in a hotel and fast - I don't eat, I don't drink, I don't talk."

"Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss."