Black Community Quotes - Page 4

• As blacks, we need not be afraid that encouraging moral development, a conscience and guilt will prevent social action. Black children without the ability to feel a normal amount of guilt will victimize their parents, relatives and community first. They are unlikely to be involved in social action to improve the black community. Their self-centered personalities will cause them to look out for themselves without concern for others, black or white.

  James P. Comer

  Children, Moral Development, Self

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• I don't think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice. What I profess to do is help the oppressed and if I cause a load of discomfort in the white community and the black community, that in my opinion means I'm being effective, because I'm not trying to make them comfortable. The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.

  Al Sharpton

  Jobs, Kings, Mean

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• Light-skinned black people are seen to be closer to white people. The allegiance to lighter-skinned people has operated in a very destructive way that we have internalized ourselves inside black communities. You look at many of the prominent black people in this society who have been able to do well. Many have been lighter-skinned.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Light, White, People

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• There's some homophobia within black community, but there's some strong homophobia throughout the whole of American society as well, particularly throughout the South to a degree, whether white or black. And since many of us migrated from the South, that could be a strong connection along those lines.

  Otis Moss III

  Strong, White, Community

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• I think that we need more economic-based solutions to the problems afflicting the Black community, and I think that that's a way to redefine affirmative action. I grew up with poor white people in West Virginia, and I know there's a culture of poverty. I know that I've seen white people perform exactly the same pathological forms of behavior as Black people do when they're systematically deprived, whether it's getting pregnant, doing drugs, dropping out of school, whatever we're talking about. I think that we should have affirmative action for poor white people too.

  Henry Louis Gates

  School, Thinking, Virginia

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 21, 2013.

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• One of the facets of growing up the way I did, I never had the experience of being solely in the black community. Even my family, my mother is what they call Creole, so she's part French, part black, and grew up in Louisiana. It's a very specific kind of blackness that is different than what is traditionally thought of as the black community and black culture. So, I never felt a part of whatever that was.

  Justin Simien

  Mother, Growing Up, Community

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• In the case of a man and a woman [accused of commiting a crime together], both will often agree to the man taking the rap despite the man being more likely to receive a longer sentence and more likely to be raped in prison. If blacks were agreeing to do that for whites, the black community would be smart enough to call that 'learned subservience.'

  Warren Farrell

  Smart, Rap, Men

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• And I've always been very close to my friends and allies in the black community, the Latino community and organized labor.

  Tom Hayden

  Community, Black, Organized Labor

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Theoretically, you can make, obviously, a powerful argument that centuries of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination are the primary cause for all those gaps. That those were wrongs done to the black community as a whole, and black families specifically, and that in order to close that gap, a society has a moral obligation to make a large, aggressive investment, even if it's not in the form of individual reparations checks, but in the form of a Marshall Plan, in order to close those gaps. It is easy to make that theoretical argument.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Order, Community

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• Genetically, I'm pure Greek. Psychologically, environmentally, culturally, by choice, I'm a member of the black community.

  Johnny Otis

  Choices, Community, Greek

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• We don't have a full black community in Boston. Our people are scattered. There's a middle class where I live in Highland Park but it's not like a piece of Washington or Chicago.

  Henry Hampton

  Boston, Class, People

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• Music is the very cement that has not just held the black community together but holds black selves together in a fundamental sense.

  Cornel West

  Self, Community, Black

  Interview with Itabari Njeri, articles.latimes.com. October 22, 1995.

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• Republicans think that the NAACP is the only voice in the black community. It is a voice in the black community. But it's not the only voice.

  J. C. Watts

  Thinking, Voice, Community

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• I think that the response to the OJ Simpson trial was based on a kind of sensibility that emerged out of the many campaigns to defend black communities against police violence.

  Angela Davis

  Thinking, Police Violence, Community

  Frontline Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• I'm albino, my family is white, but I was really raised, and taught my important life lessons, by the black community.

  Brother Ali

  Life Lesson, White, Community

  Interview with David Brusie, music.avclub.com. April 26, 2007.

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• I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.

  Angela Davis

  Thinking, Community, Black

  Frontline Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• We can't talk about the black community. It's no longer a homogeneous community; it was never a homogeneous community.

  Angela Davis

  Community, Black, Homogeneous

  PBS Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past. I think we have to seek to create coalitional strategies that go beyond racial lines. We need to bring black communities, Chicano communities, Puerto Rican communities, Asian American communities together.

  Angela Davis

  Thinking, Past, Issues

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• My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London.

  Ken Livingstone

  Issues, Community, Black

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• We were coming out of the black community with this thing called rap music, which was basically black men yelling at the top of their lungs about what we liked and what we didn't like. It was disturbing to the status quo. It really shook things up. And those in power didn't know what to make of us, but they knew that we had to be silenced, stopped in any way from expressing our outrage.

  Chuck D

  Rap, Men, Yelling

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.

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• I've gotten nothing but warmth from the Black community and positive feedback.

  Misty Copeland

  Community, Black, Feedback

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The reason why rappers are living in - you know, driving in Mercedes-Benz's and living in neighborhoods is because they're selling their music, not just to the black community, but to the white community.

  Eric Bolling

  Rapper, White, Community

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• In 1990, when we started the Black Community Crusade for Children, we were always talking about all children, but we paid particular attention to children who were not white, who were poor, who were disabled, and who were the most vulnerable.Parents didn't think their children would live to adulthood, and the children didn't think they were going to live to adulthood. That's when we started our first gun-violence campaign. We've lost 17 times more young black people to gun violence since 1968 than we lost in all the lynching in slavery.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Thinking, Gun

  Interview with Jurnee Smollett-Bell, www.lennyletter.com. April 8, 2016.

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• Donald Trump has not held an event in the black community. He has not gone to a black church, as Hillary Clinton has done.

  Donna Brazile

  Community, Black, Church

  "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. August 28, 2016.

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• I've heard Donald [Trump]s ay this at his rallies, and it's really unfortunate that he paints such a dire negative picture of black communities in our country.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Community, Black

  Source: time.com

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