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“To continue in one path is to go backward.”
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“I have a beautiful wife and a wonderful support system and I think in those low moments, I could never thank them enough.”
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“I grew up in a home environment where I wasn't getting esteem for anything I did.”
Source : Interview with Dotson Rader, parade.com. October 10, 2007. 
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“The boy was beginning to understand that intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because it's all written there.”
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“Fear-of not being loved, of abandonment, of being thought to be selfish-is the main thing that keeps us vulnerable and bound in the chains of emotional dependence. Therefore, our two most difficult challenges are to truly believe it is okay for us to be ourselves and to learn to live with, move through, and heal our fears.”
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“I've been screwed by as many women as I have by men, in terms of lawyers. But lawyers don't count. If you take lawyers out of the equation, you have a more fair playing field. There is a sisterhood.”
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“But a sort of rupture-in anguish-leaves us at the limit of tears: in such a case we lose ourselves, we forget ourselves and communicate with an elusive beyond.”
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“Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white 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.”
Source : Dick Gregory, Robert Lipsyte (1990). “Nigger”, p.144, Simon and Schuster
