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

  Daniel Tosh

  White, Guy, Black

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

  Michael Moore

  White, Guy, Black

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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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• It wasn't about Larry Holmes, if I would have fought a brother I wouldn't have gotten the money I got. Give me 10 black guys and I make eight dollars. Give me Gerry Cooney and I make $10 million.

  Larry Holmes

  Brother, Eight, Giving

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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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• People all over the world now are following our election. And according to a new international poll that just came out, I think this came out a few hours ago, this is true, people in Canada want Barack Obama to be the next U.S. president. That's what they're saying. In Canada, yeah. That makes sense, because Obama has the support of Canada's anti-war voters, as well as Canada's black guy. He is very excited.

  Conan O'Brien

  War, Thinking, People

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• When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, 'cause that was the best game. And these guys, they'd let me play. And they were black guys.

  Larry Bird

  Kids, Games, Play

  "Larry and Earvin still magic". Interview with Rick Reilly, www.espn.com. March 6, 2012.

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• If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.

  Barack Obama

  Choices, Guy, Leader

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• My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Mom, Names, Guy

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• I think every group of black guys should have at least one white guy in it.

  Dave Chappelle

  Funny, Thinking, Should Have

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• The only tactic liberals have is to try to intimidate people into thinking that the Tea Party is racist. The Tea Party is not a racist movement, period! If it were, why would the straw polls keep showing that the black guy is winning? That's a rhetorical question. Let me state it: The black guy keeps winning.

  Herman Cain

  Party, Winning, Thinking

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• I suppose it was later on that I realized that there was some reaction among the musicians themselves, some of whom resented the success of cool jazz in California, and that broke down into the white guys against the hard-blowing black guys in New York.

  Ashley Kahn

  New York, Cool Jazz, California

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