Black People Quotes - Page 10

• Despite what some people have said, President Bush did not want black people to die in New Orleans. However, he did hope they would not relocate to any areas of Texas that he likes to frequent.

  Scott McClellan

  New Orleans, Texas, People

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• What Black Consciousness seeks to do is to produce real black people who do not regard themselves as appendages to white society. We do not need to apologise for this because it is true that the white systems have produced through the world a number of people who are not aware that they too are people.

  Steven Biko

  Real, White, Numbers

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• Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?

  Jared Diamond

  White, People, Black

  Jared Diamond (2017). “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies”, p.9, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I believe that when it comes to major foreign policy issues, many prefer to have black people seen and not heard.

  Cynthia McKinney

  Believe, Issues, People

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• To be Christian is to be one of those whom God has chosen. God has chosen black people!

  James H. Cone

  Christian, People, Black

  James H. Cone “Black Theology and Black Power”, Orbis Books

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• For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people.

  Linda Chavez

  White, People, Black

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• The only black people you found were occasional characters or characters who were so feeble-witted that they couldn't manage anything, anyway. I wrote myself in, since I'm me and I'm here and I'm writing.

  Octavia Butler

  Writing, Character, People

  "Unseen Octavia E Butler stories recovered" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2014.

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• You always see black people complaining about this and that, but you never see me complaining about how slow they work on my plantation.

  Zach Braff

  People, Black, Complaining

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• Oh sure, I have a few black people in my family tree. They're probably still hanging there.

  Zach Braff

  People, Tree, Black

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• I don't like the term 'black people', I find it demeaning to those of us that actually qualify as 'people'.

  Zach Braff

  People, Black, Term

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• It's not that George Bush doesn't care about black people, god made hurricanes, not people who can't swim.

  Zach Braff

  People, Swim, Black

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• IQ tests are routinely used as weapons against Black people in particular and minority groups and poor people generally. The tests are based on white middle-class standards, and when we score low on them, the results are used to justify the prejudice that we are inferior and unintelligent. Since we are taught to believe that the tests are infallible, they have become a self-fulfilling prophecy that cuts off our initiative and brainwashes us.

  Huey Newton

  Believe, Cutting, White

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• We are fighting so that insults may no longer rule our countries, martyred and scorned for centuries, so that our peoples may never more be exploited by imperialists not only by people with white skin, because we do not confuse exploitation or exploiters with the colour of men's skins; we do not want any exploitation in our countries, not even by black people.

  Amilcar Cabral

  Country, Fighting, Men

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• Black History Month is dedicated to heroes that paved the way for Black people. It's a month that's very imperative because it gives those who lack the knowledge of our heroes a chance to gain insight. It's not just about the month, it's about the years that it took for us to get to this one month and it's beyond placing a value on how much Black History Month really means to me.

  Alana Beard

  Hero, Mean, Years

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• Black History Month is a great celebration for Black people everywhere. I just hope we get to the point as Black people that we celebrate everyday like it is Black History month by living our lives and aspiring to be all we can. Many people lost their lives for us to have the privileges we have so we need to honor them by striving to be the best we can be.

  Crystal Robinson

  People, Black History, Everyday

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• A cynic had defined aid as simply the system by which poor white people in rich countries gave money to rich black people in poor countries to put into Swiss bank accounts.

  Wilbur Smith

  Country, Rich Countries, White

  Wilbur Smith (2013). “Wilbur Smith's Smashing Thrillers: Hungry as the Sea, Elephant Song and Wild Justice”, p.686, Pan Macmillan

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• People make jokes about how black people are the first ones to be killed off.

  Sanaa Lathan

  People, Black, Firsts

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• Recognize that being one of the only black people in an organization, or just in a meeting, automatically makes you very visible. Use this to help yourself. Look at it as an opportunity, and leverage that opportunity by making a visible contribution.

  Kenneth I. Chenault

  Leadership, Opportunity, Organization

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• This is our culture, and I don't care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is scared of something. He doesn't have confidence in himself or else he doesn't believe in what he's doing.

  Betty Carter

  Believe, People, Black

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• When white people wear baggy clothing and speak gibberish they're homeless, when black people wear baggy clothing and speak gibberish they're called rappers.

  Carlos Mencia

  Rapper, White, People

  "Mind of Mencia". Comedy Series, 2005 - 2008.

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• If I may add, for instance, [Martin Luther] King and these others will say that they are fighting for the Negro to have equal job opportunity. How can people, a group of people, such as our people, who own no factories, have equal job opportunities competing against the race that owns the factories?The only way the two can have equal job opportunities is if black people have factories as, as well as white people have factories.

  Malcolm X

  Kings, Jobs, Fighting

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• The Holocaust would never have happened if black people lived in Germany in the 1930s and 40s … well, it wouldn't have happened to Jews.

  Sarah

  Funny, Humor, People

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• Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact

  John Henrik Clarke

  People, Black, Slavery

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• I think that any black man who teaches black people to turn the other cheek and suffer peacefully after they've been turning the cheek and suffering peacefully for 400 years in a land of bondage, under the most cruel, inhuman and wicked slavemaster that any people have ever been under, he is doing those people an injustice, and he's a traitor to his own people.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Thinking, Years

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• No one should advocate any peaceful suffering to black people, unless the black - white man is going to practice the same kind of peaceful suffering.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, Practice

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