I also want an African Grey, but the language he would learn would make him “unsociable.”
Had a red Austrailian Lorikeet who was a rescue pet. Found out why his elderly owner gave him away. Her teenage grandsons taught it a slew of 4 letter words. He had almost comedic timing with it sometimes. Once he waited until our cable guy, who was bending over in front of the tv, dropped a tool. The bird said “You stupid $hithead”. Another time I had him on the porch and a rather large woman was walking by our house. He waited until I was walking out the front door to check on him to scream “Hey, you stupid fat bi!ch!” She was not amuzed. All I could do was back very slowly into the house.
Buy a hand-raised parrot that has been socialized if you do. Years ago I bought a African Gray Timneh that had been caught wild as an adult. He never tamed down and the mean thing never learned to talk. They are supposed to be great talkers, but that one was a dud.