#u

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

#being #expert #just #makes #medicine

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

#american citizen #athlete #citizen #class #either

And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#civil #civil war #dance #especially #love

Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#hath #hell #liberal #like #scorned

Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#loss #much #possession #riches #their

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

#buy #crack #every #fabric #i

I tell people, 'If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.' ↗

— Dick Gregory

#house #i #message #people #send

I used to get letters saying, 'I didn't know black children and white children were the same.' ↗

— Dick Gregory

#children #get #i #know #letters

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

#eleven #finally #i #integrated #restaurant

I went to Ethiopia, and it dawned on me that you can tell a starving, malnourished person because they've got a bloated belly and a bald head. And I realized that if you come through any American airport and see businessmen running through with bloated bellies and bald heads, that's malnutrition, too. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#american #any #bald #because #bellies