Dick Gregory

Person · Open Library

Works

27

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Jamaica

Active from

1951-07-15

Active to

2010-10-25

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

1,453

Total plays

7,533

Dick Gregory (Richard Claxton Gregory, St. Louis, Missouri, October 12, 1932 – August 19, 2017) was an American civil rights activist, social critic, writer, entrepreneur, comedian, conspiracy theorist, and occasional actor. During the turbulent 1960s, Gregory became a pioneer in stand-up comedy for his "no-holds-barred" sets, in which he mocked bigotry and racism. He performed primarily to black audiences at segregated clubs until 1961, when he became the first black comedian to successfully cr

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis

   · 2004 · cited 43,780x

2. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 34,742x

3. QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

   · 2010 · cited 30,753x

4. The ERA5 global reanalysis

   · 2020 · cited 22,816x

5. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

   · 2019 · cited 20,048x

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Quotes

• “I have experienced personally over the past few years how a purity of diet and thought are interrelated. And when Americans become truly concerned with the purity of the food that enters their own personal systems, when they learn to eat properly, we can expect to see profound changes effected in the social and political system of this nation. The two systems are inseparable.”
• “I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.”
• “When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.”
• “I personally would say that the quickest way to wipe out a group of people is to put them on a soul food diet. One of the tragedies is that the very folks in the black community who are most sophisticated in terms of the political realities in this country are nonetheless advocates of “soul food.” They will lay down a heavy rap on genocide in America with regard to black folks, then walk into a soul food restaurant and help the genocide along.”

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Wikidata facts

Official website

www.dickgregory.com

Image

Dick Gregory 2015.jpg

Number of children

11

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