Dick Gregory

"You know, I always say white is not a colour, white is an attitude, and if you haven't got trillions of dollars in the bank that you don't need, you can't be white."

"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'?"

"People with high blood pressure, diabetes - those are conditions brought about by life style. If you change the life style, those conditions will leave."

"It's cool to be healthy."

"My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn't a Christian, she would stomp you to death."

"When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps."