Black Guys Quotes - Page 2

• Why it's been left to me to smooth things over, I don't know. Dennis Rodman, of all people. Keeping us safe is really not my job; it's the black guy's [Obama's] job. But I'll tell you this: If I don't finish in the top three for the next Nobel Peace Prize, something's seriously wrong.

  Dennis Rodman

  Jobs, People, Guy

  "Grapevine: Nobel Peace Prize for Dennis Rodman?", www.foxnews.com. July 2, 2013.

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• Racing does to white guys what movies do to black guys.

  Daniel Tosh

  White, Guy, Black

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• Put the strong, masculine figure in a school with tough kids and you have a certain control. It's very demeaning to the kids and very demeaning to the tough, black guy, but that's how they worked it.

  Lynne Stewart

  Strong, School, Kids

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• All I'm saying, as a fan, is I'm tired of the same song for 30 years. Can't we change the message a little? You've arrived. You have a black president. Every white guy in a commercial doesn't have to be the idiot and every black guy in a rap song doesn't have to be God's gift to the world.

  Bill Maher

  Song, Rap, Tired

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• I voted for the black guy, and what we got was the white guy

  Michael Moore

  White, Guy, Black

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• I think my friends wife has been banging a black guy. Because they just had a baby. And the baby had a hole in it.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Baby, Thinking, Wife

  Twitter post from Jun 24, 2010

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• For instance, if you're a black guy and you got pulled over, and you didn't know that any other black men were being pulled over, you would constantly in the back of your head be thinking, "What did I do?" rather than, "I didn't do anything, these are just the conditions I live under."

  Claudia Rankine

  Men, Thinking, Guy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Race makes things funny. A black guy driving in NASCAR: not funny. A black guy driving a car sponsored by Tide: not funny. A black guy driving a car sponsored by Aunt Jemima: hilarious.

  Carlos Mencia

  Aunt, Race, Car

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• It is frustrating having to walk through America having to bob and weave people's impressions of me because they see a tall, black guy walking down the street. That is frustrating.

  Justin Simien

  America, People, Guy

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I am more than a black guy. I am a person, I'm storyteller, I'm a son, I'm a friend, so I am all those things so it is frustrating to a degree to be limited by other people's perceptions of me but at the same time, it is true that I am a black guy and it's like I'm rooted in, but not bound by. That sort of mentality, that's the one that I hold to be true.

  Justin Simien

  Son, People, Guy

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• That's what being nervous and sort of out of your comfort zone does. It's the same in "The Office" when a black guy comes to the office and all he thinks is `I better show this guy I'm not a racist.' So what does he do? Only talks about black issues.

  Ricky Gervais

  Thinking, Issues, Office

  "'The Office' Star Ricky Gervais Back with 'Extras'". "Day to Day" with Noah Adams, www.npr.org. September 22, 2005.

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• It's weird because there is progress somehow. But there's so much that just feels the same. How important is that rank? How important is it that I am allowed to make these decisions? What does that really mean? What is progress? Is it progress that a black guy gets to push a button for the nuclear bomb? Is that progress? Maybe, I don't know.

  Paul Beatty

  Mean, Guy, Decision

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My father was pretty independent. He was - he was arrested once in Nashville when he was on one of his sales trips because he had a black - guy to lunch. So that took a fair amount of courage at the time.

  Nat Hentoff

  Father, Independent, Nashville

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• I've never understood people who say they're not a practicing Jew. You never hear a black guy say he's not a practicing African-American. What does it even mean?

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Mean, People, Guy

  Gilbert Gottfried (2011). “Rubber Balls and Liquor”, p.19, Macmillan

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• Me? I see an old, broke-ass black guy taking care of a bunch of kids, living life, taking them to school, and all that stuff, who's asking himself: What the hell is this? But I wouldn't give it up for the world because I love my wife. I never expected to have a life like this. No chaos... no confusion... no lawsuits... no violence... no going to jail.

  Mike Tyson

  Live Life, School, Kids

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I'll give you an example. Henry, the old black guy who cooks the corn bread, he worked on the railroads for about 20 years so he knows how to lay and build track.

  Marc Singer

  Years, Track, Giving

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• For me the music community was always like a model for what could be. The way people would play together, just harmony and being - old guys and young guys, black guys and white guys. It was setting an example for what the rest of us could be.

  Bill Frisell

  Play, White, People

  "When I'm looking back I'm actually trying to find some kind of a key to go forward". Interview with Jake Nussbaum, logger.believermag.com. August 5, 2014.

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• I have Black guys who tell me they put my books on their bed stands to read at night like something for guidance or information. That really pleases me a lot. I think my work has changed some things. It's changed me.

  Ishmael Reed

  Book, Night, Thinking

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I don't think I'm egotistical, and I know what my limits are: I'm a black guy who's probably losing his hair. But I'm happy to play roles that I'm given, and I'm happy to play roles that I write.

  Noel Clarke

  Writing, Thinking, Hair

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.'

  Magic Johnson

  Play, Guy, Bird

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Prince is king to me. As this half-naked, short black guy who looked like a girl in the 70s and 80s, he was talking about women in a way that was very unusual because he didn't objectify them.

  Robyn

  Girl, Kings, Talking

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 28, 2010.

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• I grew during segregation in an all-black segregated neighborhood with segregated schools, etcetera. I was raised by a great father, my hero, who I much admired. So, I never really had anxiety in the way that someone like Obama would have. When he walks down the street alone, since no one knows who his mother is, they're just going to see him as a black guy.

  Shelby Steele

  Mother, Father, Hero

  "Shelby Steele: The Why Obama Can’t Win Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. February 27, 2008.

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• Holyfield won the fight. It's not the first time Romney has been knocked out by a black guy.

  David Letterman

  Fighting, Guy, Black

  "David Letterman's political guests: The jokes were on them" by Diana D'Abruzzo, Slide 5, www.politico.com. May 20, 2015.

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• When you see a black guy on TV, he's always a thug or always portrayed as someone that's in trouble. It spreads the message to everyone else that that's who we are. People often don't try to understand black men as a whole. We're creative, strong and influential.

  Thomas Jones

  Strong, Thug, Men

  "Meet Being Mary Jane's 'Cutty Buddy,' Thomas Q. Jones". Interview with Demetria Lucas D'Oyley, www.theroot.com. February 24, 2015.

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• Why is it that it's okay to call a white person "mate" yet it's not okay to call a black guy "primate"?

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Humor, White

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