Top 47 Quotes by 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.

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.

I wouldn't mind paying taxes - if I knew they were going to a friendly country.

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

You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X.

Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.

I buy about $1,500 worth of papers every month. Not that I trust them. I'm looking for the crack in the fabric.

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

It's cool to be healthy.

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.