I have a bunch of his albums, including....The Two Sides of, In Living Black & White, and At Kent State. Rest In Peace, Dick Gregory.
His comedy was too smart for the room sometimes I think. Hope he gets served that cheeseburger upstairs.
Great Human Being,down to Earth good person,you could easily find him walking down a city street as I did some years ago in D.C. ,no fanfare or media,just a person who cared deeply about trying to fix things in this country.
Modern comedy would not be near the same without Dick Gregory. Now he knows what nobody else who's reading this knows. "Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I understand there are a good many Southerners in the room tonight. I know the South very well. I spent twenty years there one night. 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." Then these three white boys came up to me and said, "Boy, we're giving you fair warning. Anything you do to that chicken, we're gonna do to you." So I put down my knife and fork, I picked up that chicken and I kissed it. Then I said, "Line up, boys!""
Someone in his family said the years of on & off fasting destroyed his health. I grew up with him and never really heard his act, just just his civil rights involvement.
