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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The Black church is extremely important in Black America. I think most Americans themselves believe in a divine power, in a god, and I'm sure that that number increases with Black people.

  Harry Lennix

  Believe, Thinking, Numbers

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• What is being black? It's making the most of your life, not taking a single moment for granted. Taking something that's seen as a struggle and making it work for you, or you'll die inside. Not to say that my struggle is like the collective struggle of black America. But maybe my struggle is similar to one black dude's.

  John Mayer

  Single Mom, Struggle, America

  "John Mayer apologises after using N-word in Playboy interview" by Rosie Swash, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2010.

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• It's not anything that is just perpetuated by White America or just perpetuated by Black America. It's just a cultural understanding that you're just not a part of the equation when it comes to sexuality and I think that people mistake your lack of opportunity with the level of your talent.

  Viola Davis

  Mistake, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• We have seen an unprecedented gathering of the leaders of black America coming together to speak with one voice, ... The whole spectrum of black thought was represented on this stage ... .
  This tells us that a new day is dawning in America.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Voice, America, New Day

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• I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET. Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.

  Al Sharpton

  America, Black, Stories

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• Hip-hop is very diverse, but if you only focus on one aspect of it, then what you get is this image of Black America that is completely contrary to what actually goes on.

  Prince

  America, Focus, Hip Hop

  "Tribute to Prince Part 1". The Travis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. April 22, 2016.

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• America is capable at single moments of receiving the depth and the breadth of the homiletical vision of black America when a black preacher rises to his or her craft at the height of his or her ambition and the desire to tell America the truth.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Single Mom, Ambition, America

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I stand before you today as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the presidency of the United States. I am not the candidate of black America, although I am black and proud. I'm not the candidate of the women's movement of this country, although I am a woman, and I'm equally proud of that. I am not the candidate of any political bosses or fat cats or special interests... I am the candidate of the people...

  Shirley Chisholm

  Country, America, People

  "African-American and Female in One Candidate". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 24, 2008.

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