Black People Quotes
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Black People Quotes & Sayings
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Her heart's too hurt ... you frightened her. And she's such a straight lady
she sees shame where some of us just see people. — Margo Lanagan
she sees shame where some of us just see people. — Margo Lanagan
To be Christian is to be one of those whom God has chosen. God has chosen black people!
— James H. Cone
There is an entire generation of young people who know nothing about how viciously the FBI attacked The Black Panther Party, and why.
— Bobby Seale
Our situation is more psychological than people will admit.
Black kids kill Black kids for the same reason cops do.
They see no value. — David Banner
Black kids kill Black kids for the same reason cops do.
They see no value. — David Banner
Concrete can rot. It turns green and black before crumbling away.
Maybe only people from Congo know that. — Eliot Schrefer
Maybe only people from Congo know that. — Eliot Schrefer
Sometimes what you see of a person
Is only what they want you to see
But if you disrespect that part
They will see all of you — Robert Black
Is only what they want you to see
But if you disrespect that part
They will see all of you — Robert Black
Some people have the Midas touch, other's dip their fingers in sticky, permanent black ink, Smudged. Unlucky.
— Amy Matayo
What would America be like if we loved black people as much as we loved black culture?
— Amandla Stenberg
Many people aren't aware of the teachings of Elijah Muhammad who taught some of our most significant conscious, black thinkers of our times. "He
— Zoya
Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Oh sure, I have a few black people in my family tree. They're probably still hanging there.
— Zach Braff
People want black-and-white answers, but Scripture is rainbow arch across a stormy sky.
— Sarah Bessey
I knew a chap who bumped his leg, and it turned black and had to be cut off at the knee.' 'You do seem to mix with the most extraordinary people.
— P.G. Wodehouse
There was a great deal of inbreeding between the Indians and the slaves. Genetically speaking, black people are some part black, some part European.
— Alex Haley
I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.
— Whoopi Goldberg
People need new things to excite them, new inventions, new ideas, new art, new drugs, if there are no new things, then they resort to war
— Robert Black
Segmentation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.
— Coretta Scott King
That's the result of the black cloud on baseball, .. Until it's rid of steroids, people are naturally going to think that.
— Cal Ripken Jr.
Whose the spiritual people pon earth. The Black people. Dem a deal wit God. And God no let dem down.
— Bob Marley
I've heard that Black people and Black faces don't sell magazines, but one day you're going to beg me to be on there.
— Michael Jackson
To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.
— Agnes Varda
You see, in recent history, the Democrat party has created the illusion that their agenda and their policies are what's best for black people,
— Elbert Guillory
I want to show people there's more to me than they think.
— Rebecca Black
The world's black and white, good and bad, no matter what you hear. The people who say it isn't have already chosen black.
— Loren D. Estleman
Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
— H. Rap Brown
As a black man, my hope is that I can touch more and more people all over the world of different races and different colours.
— LL Cool J
I carry a knife now because I read in a white magazine that all black people carry knives. So I rushed out and bought me one.
— Redd Foxx
Black jurors sit on juries every day and convict black people every day.
— Johnnie Cochran
Not all black people are loud, ghetto, and ignorant, Some of them act like they got some common sense.
— Vj Nadar
People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
— Agnes Repplier
It's a good feeling, that you can put your heart out there, no matter how black it is, and people can understand it.
— James Hetfield
But I didnt do anything wrong.. Which is stupid of course, things dont happen to people because they deserve them.
— Holly Black
Black people are either threats or entertainment.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
Thank God for good genes and cocoa butter!
— Habeeb Akande
[H]istory showed that many people had lost their respect for any religion that had relied upon the support of government to spread its faith.
— Hugo Black
Why do so many black and Hispanic people vote for liberals who so energetically support the murder of black and Hispanic babies?
— Bristol Palin
In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.
— Buchi Emecheta
You can't condemn an entire species of people because of the actions of one man.
— Elizabeth Richards
A lot of people have called me the black Bette Midler, and I regard that as a compliment.
— Vesta Williams
I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
— Octavia E. Butler
My town was all-white and shut down Section 8 housing because they didn't want black people to move into the town. And I thought that was wrong - duh.
— Cecily McMillan
All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and let him have a chance to rise by his own efforts.
— William Wells Brown
I get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other.
— Bell Hooks
Black actors on the road, flying around the country working as poets. Those people are inspirations for millions of kids who write.
— Russell Simmons
My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'
— Fleur East
In the beginning, some people try to appear that everything about them is "in black and white," until later their true colors come out.
— Anthony Liccione
God had indeed set it twirling and twisting every which way when he put black people to owning their own kind.
— Ayana Mathis
Nodding, smiling, suffocating in his black gown and hoping that people would not notice his mother sobbing
— Anonymous
What mostly prevents black people from voting is that drug laws send them to prison, and then they can't vote.
— Bill Maher
Eddie [Murphy] is an icon. He's one of the reason why I started doing comedy in the beginning. He opened a lot of doors for black people.
— Tracy Morgan
Black women were created of
brown sugar and warm honey.
the sweetest thing to bless the earth.
be wary of anyone who tells you otherwise. — Alexandra Elle
brown sugar and warm honey.
the sweetest thing to bless the earth.
be wary of anyone who tells you otherwise. — Alexandra Elle
We've never advocated violence; violence is inflicted upon us. But we do believe in self-defense for ourselves and for black people.
— Huey Newton
Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?
— Jared Diamond
It's relatively easy to act nice and normal in front of a crowd, or in public. The tricky part is doing it in private.
— Robert Black
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
I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.
— Bell Hooks
My heart isn't big enough to care for the oppressors.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
When I die I hope it may be said:
'Her suffering was black, but her books were read'. — Shannon L. Alder
'Her suffering was black, but her books were read'. — Shannon L. Alder
Welcome to America, where racism will never end, white don't respect black, where black skin people are treated like criminals.
— Werley Nortreus
The dumber people think you are, the most surprised they're going to be when you kill them.
— William Clayton
...fame is something other people hand you, while success is what you define for yourself.
— Jennifer Mason-Black
When you watch TV, I didn't know black people were that happy. I had no idea they were that happy. I'm trying to find them.
— Paul Mooney
When I look into the crowd, I see young and old, black and white - it's amazing that I'm able to connect with so many different kinds of people.
— Patti LaBelle
I hate white people writing for black people; it's so offensive. So we go out and look specifically for African-American voices.
— Lee Daniels
Some people have religion as a means of solace. But, I had a dreidel, so that was out.
— Lewis Black
We in the Black Arts movement, which wasn't really a movement but a group of people who had similar objectives ...
— Nikki Giovanni
I think many people, especially from other cultures, just don't understand the role hair plays in black women's lives.
— Solange Knowles
Every night, in every Coldtown, people die. People are fragile. They die of mistakes, of overdoses, of sickness. But mostly they die of Death.
— Holly Black
This world that we live in would be perfect if there were less prejudice and people who think they are better than others.
— Werley Nortreus
In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist.
— Stephen Carter
Most stick people are black.
— Demetri Martin
You always see black people complaining about this and that, but you never see me complaining about how slow they work on my plantation.
— Zach Braff
Black Poetry is not for Black People ... it is for everybody
— Nikki Giovanni
A lot of times when people cast me, they want this big, deep black voice ... And I tend to recycle them with different roles from time to time.
— Kevin Michael Richardson
Historical omission points toward a culture's subconscious beliefs that some people matter less than others.
— Aurin Squire
Man's meanness is a fuse in search of a flame.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
We wanted black power to be all things to all people.
— Cleveland Sellers
I am angry about the world's conditions for black people.
— Brenda Fassie
Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.
— Karen Black
The Holocaust would never have happened if black people lived in Germany in the 1930s and 40s ... well, it wouldn't have happened to Jews.
— Sarah
For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people.
— Linda Chavez
I am very cautious of people who are absolutely right, especially when they are vehemently so.
— Michael Palin
I've always taken pride to be the white guy that can talk to the black people, that can refer to them truly as a brother from a different mother.
— Duane Chapman
I think that's the core of black aesthetics: the ability to improvise. That is what has enabled our [black people's] survival.
— August Wilson
I think one reason people play golf is it allows them to obsess about something other than the daily crap. It takes your mind off that.
— Lewis Black
Your life has to consist of more than 'Black people should unite.' You hope they do, but not twenty-four hours a day.
— Gil Scott-Heron