Blacks Quotes
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There were shades of grey, among the stark blacks and whites.
— L.A. Weatherly
Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often don't have the financial means to fight back.
— Rand Paul
Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.
— David Foster Wallace
I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.
— Bessie Coleman
Black people are inferior to Caucasians. Blacks constitute a totally distinct group; they overshadow the country with the germ ... of evil.
— David Wilmot
My dad was my hero when I was a young boy. And then it's a toss-up between Han Solo, the New Zealand All Blacks Rugby team, and Marlon Brando.
— Martin Henderson
Wolf Spring s not a city of finery. It is of fishers and farmers and folk on the docks, and no one wears their fine blacks except on Beltane.
— Kendare Blake
When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.
— Jesse Jackson
Anybody toting guns and stripping moose don't care too much about what they do with Jews and blacks.
— Alcee Hastings
After Civil Rights, it was very awkward for whites and blacks. We didn't know how to talk to each other.
— Nick Nolte
Is distinctive black culture the cause of economic disparity between whites and blacks or merely the reflection of it?
— Steven D. Levitt
Everybody blames the Jews for killing Christ, and the Jews try to pass it off on the Romans. I'm one of the few people who believes it was the blacks.
— Sarah Silverman
The Gun Control Act of 1968 was passed, not to control guns, but to control blacks.
— Robert Sherrill
I knew being accepted was going to be hard, but I knew I was involved in a situation that was going to bring opportunities to other blacks.
— Larry Doby
You have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this all while not appearing to.
— Richard M. Nixon
Sisters, brothers and the whities, Blacks and the crackers, Police and their backers, They're all political actors
— Curtis Mayfield
Almost said 'theater'! But I know the blacks don't go! Unless it's that My Arms Are Too Short To Box With God production. Or The Wiz.
— Jimmy Pardo
One puts on black robes to scare the hell out of white people, while the other puts on white robes to scare the hell out of blacks.
— Mo Udall
They [the blacks] had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.
— Roger Brooke Taney
I have a suspicion the blacks model themselves on the whites now that they're in power. 'Don't you know who we are, man?'
— Guy Scott
I've seen very few Hispanics and blacks who have been able to work their way into the advertising end of business.
— Jerry Della Femina
Very few blacks will take up golf until the requirement for plaid pants is dropped.
— Franklyn Ajaye
Blacks on prime-time TV are only portrayed as comedians - and often in no better a light than 'Amos & Andy.'
— Don Cornelius
I grew up in a neighborhood with blacks and Puerto Ricans and Italians, the whole gamut, so conveying unity has always meant a lot to me.
— Carmine Giovinazzo
We may be finding that in some blacks, when the choke hold is applied, the veins or arteries do not open up like in normal people.
— Daryl Gates
Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.
— John A. Powell
There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.
— Constance Baker Motley
Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a menace to the race.
— Margaret Sanger
As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Downright ridiculous legislation (such as laws specifically prohibiting blacks and whites from playing chess together).
— Michelle Alexander
There is a tendency to want to treat blacks as a monolithic socioeconomic group.
— William Julius Wilson
Whites already know blacks are stupid, violent, destructive apelike creatures. That is why Whites move away from them
always. — Alex Linder
always. — Alex Linder
Not even an advancing All Blacks haka could have dragged him away from the swing of her ass
— Amy Andrews
Every nation is part of the history we inherit, blacks and whites, slaves and gods; we have no other option, embracing each other.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Whenever a word 'nigga' is spoken, It's always followed by the same question, Can white people say nigger ?
and the correct answer is Not really. — Auliq A
and the correct answer is Not really. — Auliq A
Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low.
— Henry Louis Gates
Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart.
— Constance Baker Motley
The U.S. military was segregated 'til the Korean War, and the blacks in World War Two were totally segregated.
— Clint Eastwood
As blacks, all we got is sports and entertainment. That's the only way out the hood sometimes.
— Trey Songz
Our Blacks Are Better Than Their's
— Ann Coulter
Blacks don't square dance. If you see a black person square dancing, it is definitely the seventh sign.
— Tommy Davidson
We blacks had problems in the '60s and we solved them by marching. We've still got problems - let's march.
— Al Sharpton
We are following the blacks ... And we will follow, entering, perhaps, the same time as women.
— Ann Bausum
The Confederate flag represents the same thing to blacks as the Nazi flag represents to Jews,.
— Ken Page
Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.
— Ishmael Reed
Democrats in Louisville were led by Courier-Journal editor Henry Watterson and were implacably opposed to blacks voting.
— Rand Paul
The higher the flame shoots the quicker it blacks out.
— Helen Jacobs
Asexual, aseasonal, rectangular, slick palette of blacks, touches of pure grays and intense dark blues.
— Rad Hourani
Rich people bring a lawyer. Latinos and blacks bring their mom.
— Felipe Esparza
Screw State! State's always on the side of the blacks. The hell with them!
— Richard M. Nixon
By the war's end, some 180,000 blacks had served in the Union Army - over one fifth of the nation's adult male black population under age forty-five.
— Eric Foner
The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.
— Malcolm X
The party of Lincoln should be reaching out to blacks, Hispanics gays and so forth and so on.
— Michael Huffington
Gun-related violence and murders are concentrated among blacks and Latinos in big cities.
— Juan Williams
Only blacks can play the race card, apparently; only they think in racial terms, at least to hear white America tell it.
— Tim Wise
I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.
— Arthur Ashe
New York blacks could not vote unless they owned $250 in property (a qualification not applied to whites).
— Howard Zinn
So I'm in the Republican Party for the same reason I was in the Democratic Party: to make sure blacks are included, along with everyone else.
— Charles Evers
What does it mean to be too black for Hollywood? It's self-explanatory. Hollywood has certain kinds of blacks that they like.
— Paul Mooney
Two blacks make no white; two wrongs do not make a right.
— Henry George Bohn
Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It's very clear.
— Maya Angelou
How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?
— Constance Baker Motley
After an All-Blacks surprise loss to the French in the 1999 Rugby World Cup: The French are predictably unpredictable.
— Andrew Mehrtens
I think the penny has dropped that the All Blacks aren't automatically just going to be the best team in the world,
— Helen Clark
We've got to show that blacks and whites are treated equally in the army. Otherwise, what's the point of waging war on Hitler?
— Josephine Baker
I disagree with the prevailing point of view of some black leaders that special treatment for blacks is acceptable.
— Clarence Thomas
You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
For two centuries, the South has feared a takeover by blacks or the feds. In Obama, they have both.
— Maureen Dowd
Blacks essentially play the race card, when necessary as a counter to white privilege.
— Jonathan Coleman
panchitos, blacks,
— Rafael Chirbes
Not all 'whites' are racists. Not all racists are 'white.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.
— Constance Baker Motley
I'd feel more comfortable talking to the blacks, or Hispanics, or the poor areas. I feel more at home, believe it or not.
— Joe Arpaio
Once you sophisticate the in-betweens, your blacks and whites can take their solos and shine.
— Sara Genn
As a filmmaker, deep blacks are essential, and in my experience, no technology captures those attributes as well as Plasma.
— Ridley Scott
I'm sick of people saying I hate blacks, women, and gays. It's false and slanderous. Everyone who knows me knows I hate the Chinese.
— Zach Braff
The relationship between France and its 'foreign' players - blacks and North African Arabs - has always been troubled, particularly with Algerians.
— Rabih Alameddine
It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.
— Thomas Sowell
The young whites, and blacks, too, are the only hope that America has, the rest of us have always been living in a lie.
— Malcolm X
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
I don't mind it if blacks want equal rights, as long as they mean rights equal to a dog
— Zach Braff
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
Indeed, in US politics, 'poverty', along with 'welfare', 'unwed mothers' and 'crime', became code words for blacks.
— Frances Fox Piven
We Greeks are the blacks of Europe.
— Yanis Varoufakis
I avoided any direct reference to Jews and Blacks, who had never given me any trouble. All my trouble had come from white gentiles.
— Charles Bukowski
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
It is time for blacks to begin the shift from a wartime to a peacetime identity, from fighting for opportunity to the seizing of it.
— Shelby Steele
Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!
— Lauryn Hill