179 Quotes by 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."

"To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet."

"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."

"I tell people, 'If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house."

"Once I realised the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn't stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no."

"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."