Dick Gregory

Dick Gregory (1932-2017), real name Richard Claxton Gregory, was a US civil rights activist and comedian. He later became nutritionist.

Wisdom & Quotes

• 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.

- One Less Door, Nigger

• Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.

- One Less Door, Nigger

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

- One Less Door, Nigger

• If a man calls me a nigger, he is calling me something I am not. The nigger exists only in his own mind; therefore his mind is the nigger. I must feel sorry for such a man.

- The Shadow that Scares Me

Athol Fugard