Dick Gregory
Dick Gregory
Richard Claxton "Dick" Gregoryis an American civil rights activist, social critic, writer, entrepreneur, and comedian...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth12 October 1932
CitySt. Louis, MO
CountryUnited States of America
children white black
I used to get letters saying, 'I didn't know black children and white children were the same.'
lying years white
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.
white black today
What happens to Black Folks today, happens to White Folks tomorrow.
white people house
I tell people, 'If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.
thug white racism
So why would I want to call myself a conservative after the way them white racist thugs have used that word to hide behind? They call themselves new Republicans.
athlete white feet
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.
jobs white america
Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.
rights white black
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.
law white black
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.
attitude white needs
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.
white america black
I didn't realize, when I decided to be a comic, that a black person had never been allowed to stand flat-footed in America and talk to white folks. It never happened before.
christmas dark white
I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
song white grace
Why are black folks singing Amazing Grace which is a song about a white slaver's conversion?
white years eleven
I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted.