Black Person Quotes: top 75 famous quotes about Black Person

Black Person Quotes & Sayings

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I consider myself a human being, a Christian, a father, a husband, so many things, before being a black person. — David Oyelowo

The presiding judge ruled that a black person must surely be insane to think that he could be admitted to the University of Mississippi. — Yuval Noah Harari

People spot a big black lens, and they worry about what they're doing, or how their hair looks. Nobody see the person holding the camera. — Erica O'Rourke

One thing about me is that I'm very much like the Black Madonna. I love to reinvent myself and that's because I am a very free person. — Lil' Kim

When a black person kills a black person, the media ignores it completely. — Ben Shapiro

I had explained that a woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan — Mary Daly

Yet Betty would learn among the black Muslims that any black person clever or lucky enough to reach adulthood must choose between slumber and strugle. — Russell J. Rickford

Black people's dogs don't play fetch; you don't throw anything to a black person's dog unless it's food. So — Trevor Noah

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

Like the fact that the person Sirius cared for the most about in the world was you, said Dumbledore quietly. — J.K. Rowling

I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees nor salary connected with it. — Salmon P. Chase

I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved. — Vernon Jordan

I enjoy that the most powerful person in Hollywood is indeed a Black woman in Oprah Winfrey. I'm hoping to just transcend beyond that. — Joseph McGinty Nichol

Speaking as a black person, welfare is the worst thing that's ever happened to us. — Charles Evers

It is true that I am a person with black pockets of evil and hatred in my heart. There are underground places inside of me — Lynda Barry

The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish. — Michael Jordan

It makes you a different person, to not have a past. It eats away at who you are, until what's left is all construct, all artifice. — Holly Black

They say that every Jewish person is supposed to love one black person in his life. I'm glad Lorne Michaels chose me. — Tracy Morgan

Why does every black person in the movies have to play a servant? How about a black person walking up the steps of a courthouse carrying a briefcase? — Myrna Loy

God is behind all things, but all things conceal God. Objects are black and humans are opaque. To love a person is to render them transparent — Victor Hugo

I realize im black, but id like to be viewed as a person, and that is everybodys wish. — Michael Jordan

A person's character, I realize, is never black-and-white. There is so much gray. — Jessica Warman

NHPrimary Trivia: The Republican candidates have not spoken to a black person since Herman Cain dropped out. — Andy Borowitz

We have a black President in the United States. I think the world has matured. It's no longer about colour, but the person in the skin. — Marlon Wayans

Why is it that it's okay to call a white person "mate" yet it's not okay to call a black guy "primate"? — Frankie Boyle

I do not make jokes about Sarah Palin simply because I could not live in this world if I believed she was a real person. — Lewis Black

You make me think before I act. You make me want to be a better person-Luxen-whatever. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Anything I have ever learned of any consequence, I have learned from Black people. I have never been bored by any Black person, ever ... — Toni Morrison

I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my mental health. — Charles Barron

Trying to find my flaws is like trying to find a black person at one of our concerts — Thom Yorke

Being the person I am, you know, the size I am, being a woman, being a black woman, there's not a lot of roles for us. — Amber Riley

As black folks we're always sensitive. As a black person it's always racial. — Jamie Foxx

If you are a crazy person who needs to have clandestine meetings, then, just like in real estate, what matters most is location, location, location. — Holly Black

I thought he was an angel in black clothes, but in fact, he is the demon in person,"
~Emily — Pet Torres

I have done more for black people than any other person in the nation, North or South, — Strom Thurmond

If you want to get an idea across, wrap it up in a person. — Ralph Bunche

I wear girls' jeans, a lot of black, and I wear a lot of jewelry. I'm a wacky person! — Jamie Blackley

To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be. — Thomas Ligotti

Well who's black and what is a black person? — Pam Grier

No person can be punished for entertaining or professing religious beliefs or disbeliefs, for church attendance or nonattendance. — Hugo Black

A black Christian is like a black person with no memory. — Chris Rock

A 'black' man who draws a 'black' person with big lips is called observant. A 'white' man who does the same is called a racist. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Black people have been killed for directing their gaze at the wrong person. I want my subjects to reclaim their right to look, to see, to be seen. — Dawoud Bey

Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person. — B.B. King

Macs are not intuitive. It's intuitive to the person who created it. It's not intuitive to me. — Lewis Black

But it's possible to love more than one person at a time, Bella. I've seen it in action. — Stephenie Meyer

Any successful black person will have to face suspicion within his or her own community about his or her loyalty to other blacks. — Randall Kennedy

The black person entered the booth one person and emerged on the other side a new, transfigured person. — Desmond Tutu

Faith is the black person's federal reserve system. — Hattie McDaniel

The only person standing in your way is you. — Vincent Cassel

She is one of those black people who want to be the only black person in the room, so any other black person is an immediate threat to her. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Al Gore's Negro tolerance level has never been too high. I've never known him to have more than one black person around him at any given time. — Cynthia McKinney

Don't judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, becausetime has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond. — Chanakya

You don't fall in love with a gender, you fall in love with a person. — Andy Biersack

It was unlikely that anyone had ever heard a black person sing country music. — Charley Pride

So what? You're another person, so of course you look different. What do you need to be ashamed for? — Yana Toboso

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

It's odd to see a black person painting his nails in Miami, especially in the hip-hop community. — SpaceGhostPurrp

Never trust a white person black people don't like. — John Grisham

First black president ever, and to be living while it happened - that's a good part of history. That's probably the biggest person I admire right now. — Meek Mill

No person is completely wicked, just as no person is perfect. We are all grey — Sweety Shinde

I want to be the voice of the people; black, white, everyday, oppressed people. A person trying to make it and to do it right. — Common

I was so beat down as a young person - being black, being gay, being unable to assimilate because I could never, ever pull off being butch. — Billy Porter

The black woman had had to struggle against being a person of great strength. — Dorothy Height

The characters that I have on Twitter have very little resemblance to me, the person who's writing them. — Michael Ian Black

I married the person who understood
my heart &
nourished my dreams.
The end. — Shayla Black

I'm a happy person but an angry citizen. — Lewis Black

When a black person has no electricity, no water, they call it the ghetto. When white people have no electricity and no water, they call it camping. — Carlos Mencia

Don't break me up - I wouldn't offend any person, be they black, Asian or whatever. — Mickey Rooney

Blacks don't square dance. If you see a black person square dancing, it is definitely the seventh sign. — Tommy Davidson

Most of the things that are asked of me as a representative black person, would suggest never are we equal Americans. — Alex Haley

We've begun to put fear into those whites who think they can do anything they want to a black person and get away with it. — Charles Evers

I don't trust white critics' judgment about most things that deal with black life, particularly when a black person is the creator. — Terry McMillan

Every person that steps up and commits to social change helps solidify the black movement cause. It is not easy for those who fill in the leader role. — Assata Shakur