Dick Gregory People Quotations

I consider myself always a humorist. And I think anybody who tells jokes or makes people laugh is humor.

That's easy, to stand in a nightclub, where most of the people that come in, they came to see you.

I tell people, 'If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.

Wouldn't it be a helluva joke if all this were really burnt cork and you people were being tolerant for nuthin'?

Once I realised the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.

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

When you've got something really good, you don't have to force it on people. They will steal it!

People with high blood pressure, diabetes - those are conditions brought about by life style. If you change the life style, those conditions will leave.

Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: 'We don't serve colored people here.' "I said: 'that's all right, I don't eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.

Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.

The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.