Dick Gregory Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.”

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

“I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“It's cool to be healthy.”

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

“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'?”