Black People Quotes - Page 2

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  If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

  Malcolm X

  Hate, Lying, Media

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• I think the two issues, racism and chauvinism, are linked. Look at how much weaker was support for U.S. actions in Iraq among black people.

  Michael Yates

  Thinking, Two, Iraq

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of humiliation and oppression. The laws are made by men who have little interest in him; they are executed by men who have absolutely no motive for treating the black people with courtesy or consideration; and, finally, the accused law-breaker is tried, not by his peers, but too often by men who would rather punish ten innocent Negroes than let one guilty one escape.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Men, Law, People

  "The Souls of Black Folk". Book by W. E. B. Du Bois, 1903.

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• A lot of people, black, white, mexican, young or old, fat or skinny have a problem being true to they self. They have a problem looking in the mirror and looking directly into their own souls. Only reason I am who I am today is because I can look directly into my face and find my soul

  Tupac Shakur

  Mirrors, Self, Who I Am

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• America don't have no future! America's going to be destroyed! Allah's going to divinely chastise America! Violence, crimes, earthquakes - there's gonna be all kinds of trouble. America's going to pay for all its lynchings and killings of slaves and what it's done to black people.

  Muhammad Ali

  Lynching, Earthquakes, America

  "This is the Legend of Muhammad Ali, the Greatest Fighter That Ever Will Be". Interview, www.playboy.com. June 3, 2016.

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• Ancient Egypt was a Negro Civilization. The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in air and cannot be written correctly until African historians dare to connect it with the history of Egypt.

  Cheikh Anta Diop

  Air, Egypt, Civilization

  Cheikh Anta Diop (1989). “The African Origin of Civilization: Myth Or Reality”, p.12, Chicago Review Press

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• If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Baby, Children

  "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements". Book by Malcolm X edited by George Breitman, 1965.

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• When you talk about "white privilege", you're talking about something systemic. When you're talking about "black privilege" it's something spiritual because we as black people tap into a divine system that a lot of other cultures and races can't tap into and that system allows us to prosper in spite of everything that's been thrown our way from slavery to segregation to mass incarceration. We have a privilege pre-ordained by God that nothing and no one can stop.

  Charlamagne Tha God

  Spiritual, People, Black

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• It is our experience that the nation doesn't move around questions of genuine equality for the poor and for black people until it is confronted massively, dramatically in terms of direct action.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Moving, Direct Action, People

  "Blacklivesmatter protests shut down major highway in Boston, 29 arrested" by Adam Fleischer, www.mtv.com. January 15, 2015.

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• I personally feel like black people in America have contributed so much for so long, and haven't always gotten credit for it.

  Andre Holland

  America, Long, People

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• In the gun game, we are the most hunted. The river of blood that washes the streets of our nation flows mostly from the bodies of our black children.

  Harry Belafonte

  Children, Gun, Blood

  Harry Belafonte’s Speech Accepting NAACP Spingarn Medal, www.democracynow.org. February 18, 2013.

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• We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us.

  Evelyn Boyd Granville

  Inspiring, Education, Mean

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• Black Consciousness therefore takes cognizance of the deliberateness of God's plan in creating Black people black.

  Steven Biko

  Creating, People, Black

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• For black people, being around white people is sometimes like taking care of babies you don't like, babies who throw up on you again and again, but whom you cannot punish, because they're babies.

  Hilton Als

  Baby, White, People

  Hilton Als (2013). “White Girls”, p.224, McSweeney's

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• Black history isn’t a separate history. This is all of our history, this is American history, and we need to understand that. It has such an impact on kids and their values and how they view black people.

  Karyn Parsons

  Kids, Views, Impact

  "Karyn Parsons’ Mission To Share The Untold Stories Of Black History Heroes". Interview with Jessica Dickerson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 1, 2014.

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• Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free. Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains-whole generations followed by more generations who knew nothing but chains.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Country, Years, People

  Ta-Nehisi Coates (2015). “Between the World and Me”, p.48, Spiegel & Grau

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• Historically, you've had really muddy, unforgiving, unintentional images of black people.

  Ava DuVernay

  People, Black, Muddy

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• Our problem is that we don't have enough people in America, including black people, who are progressive and willing to sacrifice their popularity in order to tell the truth.

  Cornel West

  Sacrifice, America, Order

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Dr. King's policy was, if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. That's very good. He only made one fallacious assumption. In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none.

  Stokely Carmichael

  Kings, Heart, Order

  YouTube Channel "StefaniaStudio"/"The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975", www.youtube.com. March 23, 2011.

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• At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Black, Taught, Moments

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.108, Book Tree

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• I say violence is necessary. Violence is a part of America's culture. It is as American as cherry pie. Americans taught the black people to be violent. We will use that violence to rid ourselves of oppression if necessary. We will be free, by any means necessary.

  H. Rap Brown

  Mean, Pie, America

  "Flames of Cambridge Stoked by Decades of Division". "All Things Considered" with Jacki Lyden, www.npr.org. July 29, 2007.

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• There's one more thing I want to say. It's a touchy subject. Black beauty. Black sensuality. We live in a culture where the beauty of black people isn't always as celebrated as other types. I'd like to help change that if I can!

  Jody Watley

  Beauty, People, Black

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• They say African Americans. I say black people. I've only been to Africa once. I've been in America all my life!

  Herman Cain

  America, People, Black

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• We [Black people] have always used our creativity to battle and we're not the only ones. Black Americans are certainly leaders in that simply because we were denied education and dealt with enforced illiteracy. But people seem to always forget that literacy is not the only way of learning things or conveying knowledge.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Creativity, People, Leader

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• Sometimes it seems as if I have spent the first half of my life refusing to let white people define me and the second half refusing to let black people define me.

  Thomas Sowell

  White, People, Black

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