Dick Gregory

In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country. ”

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. ”

If you take 12 waters from the coconut - not the ones you buy in the store, although that's good - but 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. ”

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport. ”

There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up. ”

Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out. ”

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

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. ”

To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet. ”

We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class. ”