Dick Gregory Quotes

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

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.

In the South they don’t mind how close I get, so long as I don’t get too big. In the North they don’t mind how big I get, so long as I don’t get too close.

Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It’s the only time we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.

America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don’t misuse a household pet.

Just being a Negro doesn’t qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.