Black Lives Quotes
Collection of top 33 famous quotes about Black Lives
Black Lives Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Black Lives quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
Calling for an end to hate shouldn't be treated as a punishable offense.
— DaShanne Stokes
Is distinctive black culture the cause of economic disparity between whites and blacks or merely the reflection of it?
— Steven D. Levitt
And the lives of these old black women were synthesized in their eyes- a puree of tragedy and humor, wickedness and serenity, truth and fantasy.
— Toni Morrison
The epidemic is truly black-on-black crime. The greatest danger to the lives of young black men are young black men.
— C.L. Bryant
Black bodies have become ornamental, haven't they?
— Darnell Lamont Walker
Yet civil rights issues are very much on the front burner in South Carolina between the Black Lives Matter movement and police shootings.
— Ari Shapiro
The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.
— Maya Angelou
Black people live their whole lives in a fantasy world, it's just not their fantasy.
— Michael Chabon
We were talking about urban youth. And by urban I mean lives in a city not urban as in black like white people use it.
— Hannibal Buress
There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.
— Henry David Thoreau
I think that humanity is at an all-time low in how we value life, especially among young Black people. We just don't really value each other's lives .
— Michael B. Jordan
I want to be able to tell black people something they don't know, something about our own lives.
— Stanley Nelson Jr.
Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.
— Dinesh D'Souza
Every Black woman in America lives her life somewhere along a wide curve of ancient and unexpressed angers.
— Audre Lorde
Just like "All American" means "White," "All Lives" means "White.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
I think many people, especially from other cultures, just don't understand the role hair plays in black women's lives.
— Solange Knowles
We chip away as best we can at the mysterious block of marble our lives are made of- in vain; the black vein of destiny always reappears.
— Victor Hugo
It is apparent, if you go back through our history, that the grand juries of the criminal justice system do not value black lives.
— William Lacy Clay Jr.
Some people live such boring lives,its black and white,so dead! I choose to color my life with Fun, some blue some green,some red.-RVM
— R.v.m.
Bill Clinton did everything in opposition to Black Lives Matter and the things that animate the existence of the Democrat Party today.
— Rush Limbaugh
We lead two lives, and the half of our soul is madness, and half heaven is lit by a black sun. I say I am a man, is the other that hides in me?
— Arthur Machen
We go through our lives trying so hard to keep things black and white that we forget that the rainbow of love is actually colourful.
— Minakhi Misra
The law is not an ass but a chameleon in ass skin: it turns deathly black when around blacks and pristine white when around whites
— Agona Apell
This so called 'Home of the Brave'
why isn't anybody Backing us up!
When they c these crooked ass Redneck cops
constantly Jacking us up — Tupac Shakur
why isn't anybody Backing us up!
When they c these crooked ass Redneck cops
constantly Jacking us up — Tupac Shakur
If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
— Angela Y. Davis
Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
— Toni Morrison
People decide how to live their own lives! A scum bastard doesn't have the right to chain anyone down! -Sven to Torneo
— Kentaro Yabuki
We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
— Langston Hughes
Racism is so extreme and so pervasive in our American society that no black individual lives in an atmosphere of freedom.
— Margaret Walker