Black America Quotes - Page 2

• When black America is on the move, America is on the move.

  Cornel West

  Moving, America, Black

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you really think back to the culture or just black America before rap music took off, New York could have been Paris.

  Ice Cube

  New York, Rap, Thinking

  "The Believer Interview: Ice Cube". Interview with Linda Saetre, blog.longreads.com. December 2003.

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• Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Children, America, Black

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• Obama was elected in a flourish of promise that many in the African-American community believed would help not only to symbolize African-American progress since the Civil War and Civil Rights Acts but that his presidency would result in doors opening in the halls of power as had never been seen before by black America.

  Douglas Wilder

  War, Rights, Doors

  "Obama or Clinton better for blacks?" by Douglas Wilder, www.politico.com. December 12, 2011.

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• For black America needs a politics whose first mission isn't the reinforcement of the idea of black America; and a discourse of race that isn't centrally concerned with preserving the idea of race and racial unanimity. We need something we don't yet have: a way of speaking about black poverty that doesn't falsify the reality of black advancement; a way of speaking about black advancement that doesn't distort the enduring realities of black poverty.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Reality, Race, Ideas

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• When is black America going to forgive white America for slavery?

  Mark Steyn

  White, America, Black

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The question of religion in black America is something filmmakers don't want to touch.

  James McBride

  America, Black, Want

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• In black America there's such a thing as passing, the black people who are light skinned and they will pass for white.

  Juan Williams

  Light, White, America

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Liberalism Has Nearly Destroyed Black America, And Now It’s Time For Black America To Return The Favor.

  Elbert Guillory

  America, Black, Favors

  "State Senator Who Slammed ‘Government Plantation’ in Moving Video Is Back — And You’ll Want to Hear About His New Role". Video Statement, www.theblaze.com. August 6, 2013.

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• I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.

  Tavis Smiley

  Believe, America, Black

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• It is not the destiny of Black America to repeat white America's mistakes. But we will, if we mistake the trappings of success in a sick society for the signs of a meaningful life.

  Audre Lorde

  Meaningful, Mistake, Destiny

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.77, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.

  Will Smith

  Children, Men, Views

  "Will Smith on Playing Muhammed Ali". abcnews.go.com. December 13.

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• Jeremiah Wright is one of the greatest prophetic preachers that black America has produced. What I find striking is that many white brothers and sisters miss the fact that there would be no black church if the white church wasn't political and racist in refusing to worship with us.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Brother, White, America

  "Professor checks out new landscape 'after King'". Interview with Arienne Thompson, www.usatoday.com. April 3, 2008.

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• There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Patriotic, White

  2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 27 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston

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• Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who I am?

  June Jordan

  Who I Am, America, Soul

  1969 'Black Studies: Bringing Back the Person', in the Evergreen Review, Oct.

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• Where is the raised voice of black America? Why are we mute?

  Harry Belafonte

  Voice, America, Black

  "Harry Belafonte in guns plea: 'Where is the raised voice of black America?'" by Paul Harris, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2013.

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• Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Bridges, White, America

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• There's a class divide in black America that doesn't seem to trouble black Americans so much, but whites use it and exploit it. The progress of a few is allowed to stand for the progress of everyone. We can't afford that kind of disaffection at the moment.

  Darryl Pinckney

  Class, America, Black

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think that the Vietnam War era is important because we tend not to want to revisit it. For black people, there was the temptation of disaffection. People looked for alternative ways to express themselves personally and politically, people doubted the system, and there was the terrible kind of division in black America between a radical leadership and a much older, compromising leadership.

  Darryl Pinckney

  War, Thinking, America

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Just as important I believe, is Black America can look back at the show and say, "Wow, I think I now understand why a lot of white people were appalled at the acquittal of O.J. Simpson."

  Sterling K. Brown

  Believe, Thinking, White

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I think, something that you might be able to locate in the work that I'm creating today: the ability to look at a black America as something that not only can be mined in a very sort of cynical, cold way, but also embraced in a very personal, love-driven way; but also sort of critiqued.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Thinking, Creating, America

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• In the era of slavery, you could be a so-called Afro-Cuban one day and a so-called Black American the next day, or vice versa. I mean there was all this back and forth, and there was a lot of opposition in Black America to slavery in Cuba in particular, because slavery in Cuba lasted until the 1880s.

  Gerald Horne

  Mean, Next Day, America

  Source: politicalaffairs.net

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• I always want to read something about our people's enslavement near the 4th. To keep it light, I also read Rolanda Watts' "Destiny Lingers" She is a sisterfriend and I ran into her at Essence. Then, I finished Paul Taylor's "The Next America." Taylor is the Executive VP at the Pew Research Center, and he uses their excellent data base to talk about the coming "generational showdown" which we are experiencing, at some level, in Black America.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Destiny, Light, Essence

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• I think that Malcolm X was the most remarkable historical figure produced by Black America in the 20th century.

  Manning Marable

  Thinking, America, Historical

  Source: historynewsnetwork.org

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• About the state of black America, I've been working on that for many, many years. And [Donald Trump] said certain things in his early days about wanting to do something about it. We have a lot of violence in our neighborhoods now. We need education. And we need jobs. Is what I'm trying to say.

  Jim Brown

  Jobs, America, Years

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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