“The last time I was in the South I walked into a restaurant, and this waitress came up to me and said: 'We don't serve colored people here.' I said: 'That's all right, I don't eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.'”

About Dick Gregory

Activist • American

Dick Gregory was a pioneering American comedian and civil rights activist who used his platform to confront racism and social injustice. He broke racial barriers in the 1960s, becoming one of the first Black comedians...