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I look at modeling as something I'm doing for black people in general. — Naomi Campbell

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

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

Nothing is out of our realm, because it has nothing to do with color. As black people, we're not different from anyone else, other than the exterior. — Marla Gibbs

There are so many people who have this idea of who I am because I'm black. — Clarence Thomas

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'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

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

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

As long as we are not ourselves, we will try to be what other people are. — Malidoma Patrice Some

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

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

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

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

E all do it. We talk about people we don't like until they become famous. Then we love 'em. — Daniel Black

I am an educated black woman in a time when educated black people will be called upon to risk everything for the rights of black people everywhere. — Allan Dare Pearce

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

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'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 am very cautious of people who are absolutely right, especially when they are vehemently so. — Michael Palin

I marvel at the many ways we, as black people, bend but do not break. — Kristin Hunter

...I never once believed what they wanted us to believe - that we as black people are inferior to whites... — Darcus Howe

I hate the term 'black' because it doesn't bring to life who we are as a people. The term 'black' has more negative synonyms than the term white. — Isaiah Washington

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

When black men started bearing arms, these people who we think of as being pro-gun are saying, 'We ought to change this law. — Stanley Nelson Jr.

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

Most stick people are black. — Demetri Martin

Welcome to America, where racism will never end, white don't respect black, where black skin people are treated like criminals. — Werley Nortreus

I think many people, especially from other cultures, just don't understand the role hair plays in black women's lives. — Solange Knowles

Some people have religion as a means of solace. But, I had a dreidel, so that was out. — Lewis Black

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

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

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

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

...fame is something other people hand you, while success is what you define for yourself. — Jennifer Mason-Black

The dumber people think you are, the most surprised they're going to be when you kill them. — William Clayton

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

When I die I hope it may be said:
'Her suffering was black, but her books were read'. — Shannon L. Alder

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

My heart isn't big enough to care for the oppressors. — Darnell Lamont Walker

We wanted black power to be all things to all people. — Cleveland Sellers

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

I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health. — Bell Hooks

We in the Black Arts movement, which wasn't really a movement but a group of people who had similar objectives ... — Nikki Giovanni

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