Dick Gregory
Black conservatives have a right to exist, but why would I want to walk around with a swastika on my shirt after the way Hitler done messed it up?Collection: Black
If democracy is such a good thing, let's have more of it.Collection: Democracy
Martin Luther King taught us all nonviolence. I was told to extend nonviolence to the mother and her calf.Collection: Mother
Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you would never collect the money. At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.Collection: Money
Dogs are great assets to candidates, and the feeling seems to be engendered that if a dog loves the candidate, he can't be all that bad.Collection: Funny
Revolution ain't nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature. So when old folks tell me that they don't understand hip hop and the music is too loud, well I guess it means you're not supposed to be in there.Collection: Mean
You got to die of something because if you die of nothing, they won't pay your insurance.Collection: Pay
Pets are found to suffer from all the ailments known to the human.Collection: Dark
If you can justify killing to eat meat, you can justify the conditions of the ghetto. I cannot justify either one.Collection: Ghetto
I would have painted the White House black. I would have!Collection: White
America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misuse a household pet.Collection: America
The only person on the planet saying derogatory things about his woman is the black man.Collection: Men
Life isn't a race. It's a relay.Collection: Race
When you've got something really good, you don't have to force it on people. They will steal it!Collection: People
No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That's already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.Collection: Taken
Whenever the dollar is held supreme and capitalistic interests dominate, a higher value will always be placed upon property rights than upon human rights.Collection: Rights
...Humans were the only creatures in the world that ate their food cooked. You'd never find a Gorilla frying up some bananas for dinner or a lion charcoal-broiling a zebra steak. Cats don't often run to the oven with a mouse or bird they've captured, and a dog wouldn't naturally prepare its rabbit dinner in a stew.Collection: Running
Race baiters and discriminators may go underground, but they never move out of town.Collection: Moving
If I had to write down the most important people in the history of this planet, No.1 would be (abolitionist) John Brown. Why? Because he's a white man who said he would die for the cause, because they could take him, but they weren't going to take his grandchildren. That brother was beautiful.Collection: Beautiful
Some kind of way, we have to say enough is enough.Collection: Way
What price would God demand from the churches for having the audacity to lighten the color of his son's skin, and straighten out his nappy hair?Collection: Son
What happens to Black Folks today, happens to White Folks tomorrow.Collection: White
My wife and I went to jail in Selma. The difference when I was back there recently? White folks? No. Black folks who were not scared. I was behind the president this time. When I was a little boy and ran around with trifling dudes, I was the only one scared of dogs. And I was bitten 14 times! Dogs smell scared. And that's the same thing with people: 50 years ago they smelled fear. There was no fear this time.Collection: Dog
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.Collection: Long
Why are black folks singing Amazing Grace which is a song about a white slaver's conversion?Collection: Song
White folks are the luckiest people: Finally a black president and he's a behaved one. Went to the best schools, best colleges, never raises his voice. I ran for president in 1968. I tell (audiences) if I won, I would have dug up the Rose Garden and planted watermelon!Collection: School
That's easy, to stand in a nightclub, where most of the people that come in, they came to see you.Collection: People
I am one of the funniest people on the planet.Collection: People
Love is man’s natural endowment, but he doesn’t know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power.Collection: Fun