American - Comedian | October 12, 1932 -
There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
Dick Gregory
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I used to get letters saying, 'I didn't know black children and white children were the same.'
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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'?
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To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
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Once I realised the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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When I was a boy, I was taught never to use insulting expressions like, 'I've been gypped,' or, 'He welshed on the deal.'
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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.
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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.
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Now here's what I'm saying: I've always believed that every other month we hear about compromisation of bank records, I think that's the CIA and the FBI. Now let me tell you why I'm saying this. I don't believe no insignificant pip-squeak is going to be able to pull this off month after month and we can't find out what's going on.
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I buy about $1,500 worth of papers every month. Not that I trust them. I'm looking for the crack in the fabric.
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Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.
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