Black Culture Quotes
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Black Culture Quotes & Sayings
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I was a kid who liked art and theater and dance and music, but if you lived in Harlem, high culture was somewhere else, and it wasn't black.
— Samuel R. Delany
I've always loved black culture; I don't know any other way to put it. Since I was a kid I loved music and early jazz, Sly and the Family Stone.
— Robert Greene
What would America be like if we loved black people as much as we loved black culture?
— Amandla Stenberg
Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
— Eddie Huang
Black culture is something I don't relate to much at all.
— Dennis Rodman
American music culture is black culture.
— Yelawolf
Is distinctive black culture the cause of economic disparity between whites and blacks or merely the reflection of it?
— Steven D. Levitt
I love what the church offers to us as a culture - black people in particular. We would be nowhere without the black church.
— Oprah Winfrey
No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much" ... No woman has ever written enough.
— Bell Hooks
Black culture is cool, but black issues sure aren't, huh?
— Azealia Banks
Films portraying successful black people getting married are great, but films that only show one aspect of our culture, bother me.
— Drake
The gestures and the swagger and the attitude of black men is imitated everywhere in American culture, but people still find black men intolerable.
— Jess Row
Black culture is very difficult to explain to people who don't have any direct contact with it.
— Jess Row
A 'white' kid that asks too many questions is called *curious.* A 'black' kid that asks too many questions is called *forward.*
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
We've become a culture where earning money doesn't entitle you to it, but wanting it does. That is the essence of redistribution.
— Ken Blackwell
There's a thing called the 'One Drop' theory in African-American culture, which is if you have one drop of black blood in you, you're black.
— Keegan-Michael Key
The impact of black music and black art forms on American culture is really difficult to appreciate.
— Jess Row
I just feel in a lot of ways black people are so much looser and cooler. Just as a culture, it's so much more real.
— Paul Reubens
That's the kind of culture I belong to: people took their child's black complexion as an ill omen.
— Junot Diaz
In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are incredibly satisfying for readers.
— Maggie Stiefvater
Our culture has made us all the same. No one is truly white or black or rich, anymore. We all want the same. Individually, we are nothing.
— Chuck Palahniuk
The black nation of Egypt is the only country that has a science named after its culture: Egyptology
— Malcolm X
Looking at me from the outside, it is not very obvious, I know half my family is black and I feel close to their culture and their color.
— Ryan Giggs
She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin's so pale she looks like she's just broken dawn.
— John Green
I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black.
— Henry Louis Gates
If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.
— Jackson Katz
There's been a lot of talk about black men and the presence and absence of black men in positions of power in American culture.
— Jess Row
An HBCU that is not inherently revolutionary is irrelevant.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
Names are powerful and are prophecies of the future. The name you are called is a sign of what you are and what you would become.
— Jude Idada
I'm black, blind, seriously smart, and sensitive. No age would be easy for me. At least the culture had culture then, it had style.
— Dean Koontz
As a child, I experienced black culture as many people did in America: on the TV, radio, and stages.
— Shawn Amos
If you really think back to the culture or just black America before rap music took off, New York could have been Paris.
— Ice Cube
A black cat crossing the road is considered bad luck in some cultures. What about the cat's culture?
— Anno Nomius
The reason we life black people isn't because they're black. We like them because they're not as grey as we are.
— John Cage
Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts.
— Caroline Knapp
Historical omission points toward a culture's subconscious beliefs that some people matter less than others.
— Aurin Squire
The working-class black Southern Christian culture I come from still nurtures me, and I mean directly, daily.
— Bell Hooks