S. Gregory Quotes

The best entertainment speaks to the human condition in an honest way.

I never wanted to be a star, I just wanted to get work.

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother's milk.

What did I do in high school? I grew from 5 feet 4 inches to 6 feet 2 inches.

The jelly-bean eating thug says that national defense is important. But national defense starts at home.

...a disposition is an unsatisfactory thing unless we give it practical effect - deeds show dispositions.

You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.

Jesus came to establish the kingdom of God as a radical alternative to all versions of the kingdom of the world, whether they declare themselves to be "under God" or not.

To me, style is like your fingerprint. Nobody else has it.

It's cool to be healthy.

When you look at Hitler and those thugs, you can put Walmart right next to them.

I buy about $1,500 worth of papers every month. Not that I trust them. I'm looking for the crack in the fabric.

We need to renegotiate our contract with nature. Ecology is a unifying force that can diminish intolerance and expand our empathy towards others - both human and animal.

Is it only humans that look up with wonder at the stars and the vastness of the universe?

To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.

The choking humidity makes amphibians of us all, in Bombay, breathing water in air; you learn to live with it, and you learn to like it, or you leave.

The silent painting speaks on the walls and does much good.

when you judge the power that is in a person, you must judge their capacities as both friend and as enemy.

What is wrong with keeping guns out of the hands of the wrong people?

The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception.

If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.

I'm not a do-gooder. It embarrassed me to be classified as a humanitarian. I simply take part in activities that I believe in.

...the wise providence of God orders our affairs in many different ways and lovingly bestows on each one of us what is appropriate and profitable both for virtuous deeds and the mysteries of faith.

I would have painted the White House black. I would have!

I never liked the name Eldred. Since nobody knew me in New York, I just changed to my middle name.

Worship the Trinity, which I call the only true devotion and saving doctrine.

There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.

The viewer is more likely to project their own narrative onto the picture.

I spent all my time at school in the library. Bad teachers can teach you to learn on your own.

I didn't realize, when I decided to be a comic, that a black person had never been allowed to stand flat-footed in America and talk to white folks. It never happened before.

He who is required by the necessity of his position to speak the highest things is compelled by the same necessity to exemplify the highest things.

Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.

I know you don't want to hear this but someone has to say it! You are out of control! I mean they're just shoes... let it go!

The holy universal Church teaches that it is not possible to worship God truly except in Her.

Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.

If you believe you're a poet, then you're saved.

You got to die of something because if you die of nothing, they won't pay your insurance.

I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we was in Mississippi.

Because you make me laugh don't make you a comic. A comedian is a person who, that's how they make their living.

Once we used to have to crank up our cars, now you can pop it on from inside your house. Everything has changed except how we get freedom.

Every life, every love, every action and feeling and thought has its reason and significance: its beginning, and the part it plays in the end. Sometimes, we do see.

I have invented nothing. I have simply documented a magical alchemy that I want to share.

Overacting is a self-indulgence, while underacting comes either through a lack of talent or a lack of courage.

It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn't stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.

Eating liver out of a cow's body is like eating the filter out of a car.

At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.

Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.

I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it.

If there is a fundamental challenge within these stories, it is simply to change our lurking suspicion that some lives matter less than other lives.