Quote

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.

Dick Gregory

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Dick Gregory
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: October 12
Died: 2017
Died: August 19
Athletics Competitor
Autobiographer
Comedian
Entrepreneur
Politician
Social Activist
Social Critic
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
Richard Claxton Gregory
First
Citizens
Great
Wasn
Going
Either
Class
Wrong
Entertainer
American
Entertainers
Thought
Citizen
Firsts
Athlete

More quotes by Dick Gregory

Image
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
Image
Black folks tell their kids they have to be twice as good as a white person? Well, if I tell a child of mine that, or that they have to be careful - that this is what a cop would do if you do this - they think something is wrong with them. I tell them death is better.
Dick Gregory
Image
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.
Dick Gregory
Image
I would have painted the White House black. I would have!
Dick Gregory
Image
Truth is the baby of the world. It never gets old.
Dick Gregory
Image
You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'?
Dick Gregory
Image
If it wasn't for Abe Lincoln, I'd still be on the open market.
Dick Gregory
Image
Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.
Dick Gregory
Image
Why are black folks singing Amazing Grace which is a song about a white slaver's conversion?
Dick Gregory
Image
America has the mightiest military on the planet, and they didn't get there with entertainers.
Dick Gregory
Image
The NAACP is a wonderful organization . . . But do you realize if tomorrow morning we had complete integration, all them cats would be outta work?
Dick Gregory
Image
Martin Luther King taught us all nonviolence. I was told to extend nonviolence to the mother and her calf.
Dick Gregory
Image
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.
Dick Gregory
Image
Some kind of way, we have to say enough is enough.
Dick Gregory
Image
If you can justify killing to eat meat, you can justify the conditions of the ghetto. I cannot justify either one.
Dick Gregory
Image
What price would God demand from the churches for having the audacity to lighten the color of his son's skin, and straighten out his nappy hair?
Dick Gregory
Image
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
Image
Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother's milk.
Dick Gregory
Image
I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
Dick Gregory
Image
At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.
Dick Gregory