Black People Quotes - Page 12

• Frederick Douglas's agenda was an agenda, not for black people to get out of slavery. It was for America to become a better democracy. And it's spilt over for women's rights; it's split over for worker's rights and so forth.

  Cornel West

  America, Rights, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Black people loving and losing is something we don’t see enough of. We’re always in these heightened situations like something big is happening, something funny or something violent. And you know what? Sometimes we die of breast cancer or a broken heart. Things happen that are just not being explored cinematically. It’s time we reinvigorated that type of film.

  Ava DuVernay

  Cancer, Heart, People

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• Now I see why reading was illegal for black people during slavery. I discover that I think in words. The more words I know, the more things I can think about. My vocab and thoughts grow together like the stem and petals of a flower. Reading was illegal because if you limit someone's vocab, you limit their thoughts. They can't even think of freedom because they don't have the language to.

  M. K. Asante

  Flower, Reading, Thinking

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• What frustrates me is to see African-Americans behave as though what European-Americans say is worthwhile. It simply isn't. It's just some silly people who can make laws and have the power to enforce them. I'm often amazed at the conversations black people have about themselves. They ought to be having these conversations about white people. It's white people who are flawed and at fault.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Silly, People, Black

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• You know why Guns n' Roses aren't a good band? Because no black people listen to them.

  Anton Newcombe

  Gun, Rose, People

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• Did you see the 2000 Republican Presidential Convention? The last time the Republicans had that many Black people on a stage, they were selling them!

  Bill Maher

  People, Presidential, Black

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• In Harlem, for instance, all of the stores are owned by white people, all of the buildings are owned by white people. The black people are just there - paying rent, buying the groceries; but they don't own the stores, clothing stores, food stores, any kind of stores; don't even own the homes that they live in. They are all owned by outsiders, and for these run-down apartment dwellings, the black man in Harlem pays more money than the man down in the rich Park Avenue section.

  Malcolm X

  Running, Home, Men

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• I've heard that Black people and Black faces don't sell magazines, but one day you're going to beg me to be on there.

  Michael Jackson

  People, Black, One Day

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Fighting by itself doesn't interest me anymore. I want to help people, the black people and I need any kind of media to spread my thought: God, charity, peace.

  Muhammad Ali

  Fighting, Media, People

  "New Again: Muhammad Ali". Interview with Daniela Morera, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 26, 2012.

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• Black community, I think as a whole America is dealing with the issue of homophobia. We got to be really honest about whether we believe in civil rights for all people or not. As Black people we need to remember the moment that we say it's okay to disenfranchise one segment of society, we're opening the door to move backward on ourselves.

  Kerry Washington

  Moving, Believe, Thinking

  "Life is Hot for Kerry Washington". Interview with Clay Cane, www.bet.com. September 15, 2010.

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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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• Eddie [Murphy] is an icon. He's one of the reason why I started doing comedy in the beginning. He opened a lot of doors for black people.

  Tracy Morgan

  Doors, Icons, People

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Words have consequences, and I judge people not only by their words but what they do. And if you look at people who have a pattern, who've built a career out of dividing people and who built a career out of often not just Obama but finding ways to degrade and diminish African-Americans and African-American leaders. It's racist to consistently make your living on the backs of black people.

  Joan Walsh Anglund

  Careers, Judging, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Brown people and black people and red people swarmed through our great halls, until those who were white looked simply faded-out human beings beside them. Indeed, I came to see that white is not a color in skin any more than in textiles, and if it had not quality, it had no value even for humanity. I saw that color in skin had a certain advantage in strength and warmth as a means of beauty.

  Candace Wheeler

  Mean, White, Color

  Candace Wheeler (1918). “Yesterdays in a Busy Life”

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• If we [black people] do not show up and support the march towards cinematic equality, the march towards being on a level at - we don't even have to be higher than whites, but to be viewed in the same common thread of this is a professional, these are stories that people are interested in, instead of being fed the same old BS dogma that's been fed and the studios have used.

  Terrence Howard

  Common Threads, People, Support

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Throughout history there have been black people who have played mammies, all sorts of offensive images, who didn't mind doing it.

  Marc Lamont Hill

  People, Black, Mind

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Lots of white people think black people are stupid. They are stupid themselves for thinking so, but regulation will not make them smarter.

  Stephen L. Carter

  Stupid, Thinking, White

  Stephen L. Carter (1991). “Reflections of an affirmative action baby”, Basic Books

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• Either black people end up being the best in sports, or else it's show business. You know, we all got rhythm.

  Diana Ross

  Sports, People, Black

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• I like a bit of color myself, I must say. At my time of life, if you wear nothing but black, people might think you were too mean to change frocks between funerals.

  Winifred Holtby

  Mean, Thinking, Color

  Winifred Holtby (1936). “South Riding”

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• I marvel at the many ways we, as black people, bend but do not break.

  Kristin Hunter

  Racism, People, Black

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• God made men by baking them in an oven, but he forgot about the first batch, and that's how Black people were born. And then he was so anxious about the next batch, he took them out of the oven too soon, so that's how White people were made. But the third batch he let cook until they were golden-golden-golden, and, honey, that's you and me.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Men, White, People

  Sandra Cisneros (1991). “Woman Hollering Creek, and Other Stories”, Random House Incorporated

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• When you're black, you have to deal with so much crap in your life from other black people. It's a dirty, dark secret; I'm glad it's coming out.

  Charles Barkley

  Dirty, Dark, People

  "'Brainwashed' blacks hold up success". Interview with Breeanna Hare, www.cnn.com. October 28, 2014.

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• Anything that could be conceived of that would separate black people from white people was devised and codified by someone in some state in the South. There were colored and white waiting rooms everywhere, from doctor's offices to the bus stations, as people may already know.

  Isabel Wilkerson

  White, Doctors, Waiting Rooms

  "Great Migration: The African-American Exodus North". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 13, 2010.

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• I carry a knife now because I read in a white magazine that all black people carry knives. So I rushed out and bought me one.

  Redd Foxx

  Knives, White, People

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• A lot of young black people in America, and even in Africa and Brazil, would say that they are telling their story, but most of the films are like application forms with the formulaic ideas of Hollywood.

  Haile Gerima

  Ideas, America, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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