Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another. – Dick Gregory
You know, I always say white is not a colour, white is an attitude, and if you havent got trillions of dollars in the bank that you dont need, you cant be white. – Dick Gregory
You hear entertainers all the time, saying, If I couldnt get paid for this, Id do it for free. Whens the last time you ever heard a business person say, If I couldnt get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, Id do it for free? – Dick Gregory
Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten. – Dick Gregory
Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing. – James Buchan