1. “My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.” ~ Dick Gregory
2. “I used to get letters saying, ‘I didn’t know black children and white children were the same.” ~ Dick Gregory
3. “Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.”― Dick Gregory
4. “Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can’t afford it.” ~ Dick Gregory
5. “Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don’t have the ability to be lovable.” ~ Dick Gregory
6. “I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.” ~ Dick Gregory
7. “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.” ~ Dick Gregory
8. “It’s cool to be healthy.” ~ Dick Gregory
9. “If all you can do is judge a person by their appearance, because you don’t have the spirit to judge someone from within, you’re in trouble.” ~ Dick Gregory
10. “One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.” ~ Dick Gregory
11. “Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.” ~ Dick Gregory
12. “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.” ~ Dick Gregory
13. “People with high blood pressure, diabetes – those are conditions brought about by life style. If you change the life style, those conditions will leave.” ~ Dick Gregory
14. “When you’ve got something really good, you don’t have to force it on people. They will steal it!”
15. “We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn’t think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.” ~ Dick Gregory
16. “Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.”― Dick Gregory
17. “I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.” ~ Dick Gregory
18. “There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.” ~ Dick Gregory
19. “Just being a Negro doesn’t qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.” ~ Dick Gregory
20. “The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.” ~ Dick Gregory
21. “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.” ~ Dick Gregory
22. “If all you can do is judge a person by their appearance because you don’t have the spirit to judge someone from within, you’re in trouble.” ~ Dick Gregory
23. “Once I realised the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.” ~ Dick Gregory
24. “You know, I always say white is not a color, 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.” ~ Dick Gregory
25. “When I was a boy, I was taught never to use insulting expressions like, ‘I’ve been gypped,’ or, ‘He welshed on the deal.” ~ Dick Gregory
26. “I believe young voters will either vote for Obama or not vote at all. So the problem is not Obama the problem is the system. If you think about how mess up this country is, most folk really don’t have choices.” ~ Dick Gregory
27. “If you take 12 drinks of water from the coconut – not the ones you buy in the store, although that’s good – the fresh coconuts, the little brown ones with the three eyes. If you take 12 of those within 24 hours, your blood will go back to the way it was when you were born.” ~ Dick Gregory
28. “I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn’t have what I wanted.” ~ Dick Gregory
29. “I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.” ~ Dick Gregory
30. “Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.” ~ Dick Gregory
31. “When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It’s not enough, but it helps.” ~ Dick Gregory
32. “People with high blood pressure, diabetes – those are conditions brought about by lifestyle. If you change the lifestyle, those conditions will leave.” ~ Dick Gregory
33. “My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.” ~ Dick Gregory
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