Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition. Dick Gregory More Quotes by Dick Gregory More Quotes From Dick Gregory I buy about $1,500 worth of papers every month. Not that I trust them. I'm looking for the crack in the fabric. Dick Gregory fabric cracks paper Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can't afford it. Dick Gregory should people looks 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. Dick Gregory black white america A Klaner KKK is a cat who gets out of bed in the middle of the night and takes his sheet with him. Dick Gregory kkk cat night Once we used to have to crank up our cars, now you can pop it on from inside your house. Everything has changed except how we get freedom. Dick Gregory crank car house Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out. Dick Gregory white jobs america Eating liver out of a cow's body is like eating the filter out of a car. Dick Gregory filters car body My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn't a Christian, she would stomp you to death. Dick Gregory christian mother jesus Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother's milk. Dick Gregory coconuts milk mother Don't have a high school diploma? You're in my Cabinet. Why? For 200 years, a lot of Cabinets have existed in our government. Powerful men. Well-educated. So let's try something totally new. Dick Gregory powerful men school Because you make me laugh don't make you a comic. A comedian is a person who, that's how they make their living. Dick Gregory make-me-laugh comedian laughing The jelly-bean eating thug says that national defense is important. But national defense starts at home. Dick Gregory home war peace 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. Dick Gregory black law white America has the mightiest military on the planet, and they didn't get there with entertainers. Dick Gregory planets military america To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet. Dick Gregory comedian musician poet People keep telling me about the white race and the black race - and it really doesn't make sense. I played Miami, met a fellow two shades darker than me - and his name was Ginsberg! Took my place in two sit-in demonstrations - nobody knew the difference. The he tried for a third lunch counter and blew the whole bit ... asked for blintzes. Dick Gregory race names two 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. Dick Gregory dollars white attitude My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that's never been explained. Dick Gregory certain belief knows America is 5 percent of the world's population and consumes 96 percent of the world's hard drugs. Dick Gregory drug america world 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. Dick Gregory black rights white
