Dick Gregory Quotes & Sayings
47 most famous Dick Gregory quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He's a 92 year old American comedian born on Oct 12, 1932.
“People with high blood pressure, diabetes - those are conditions brought about by life style. If you change the life style, those conditions will leave.”
“When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.”
“I went to Ethiopia, and it dawned on me that you can tell a starving, malnourished person because they've got a bloated belly and a bald head. And I realized that if you come through any American airport and see businessmen running through with bloated bellies and bald heads, that's malnutrition, too.”
“If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they'd have to bring out the tanks to control you.”
“If you take 12 waters from the coconut - not the ones you buy in the store, although that's good - but the fresh coconuts, the little brown ones with the three eyes, if you take 12 of those within 24 hours, your blood will go back to the way it was when you were born.”
“Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.”
“In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.”
“Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.”
“Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother's milk.”
“Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.”
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