Black People Quotes - Page 27

• I think white people like to tell Asian people how they should feel about race because they're too scared to tell black people.

  Margaret Cho

  Thinking, Race, White

  "Margaret Cho: PsyCHO". TV Special, www.thedailybeast.com. September 25, 2015.

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• I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.'

  Henry Louis Gates

  Movie, People, Black

  "Black In Latin America" by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., www.huffingtonpost.com. July 28, 2011.

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• I can't tell Black people to fight a war that is Israel's war. What kind of leader will you be, or should I be, to allow these babies Black, white and brown, to fight Israel's war, because Zionists dominate the government of the United States of America and her banking system.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Baby, Religious, War

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• The liberal psyche wants to protect minorities, to apologize for imperialism, colonialism, slavery, and the appalling treatment of black people during the civil rights movement. At the same time, they want to continue to defend the rights of individuals.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Rights, People, Black

  "Ayaan Hirsi Ali on why Christians should try to convert Muslims". Interview with Kate Fillion, www.macleans.ca. May 21, 2010.

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• It doesn't do any good to just be on the side of black people. The funnier comedic position is to be on the side of oppressed people in general.

  W. Kamau Bell

  People, Black, Sides

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• When I was a teenager, black pride became newly popular again. Suddenly a lot of black people were wearing the fake kente cloth and red black and green and Bob Marley. That was sort of my window into finding my own identity as a black person.

  W. Kamau Bell

  Teenager, Pride, People

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• There is a linear way in which black comedians are expected to talk about race by all audiences - black people are like this, white people are like this - and it really is hard to break through that. I never was doing it that way.

  W. Kamau Bell

  Race, Break Through, White

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• To me, entertainment is really the new plantation. It's the new sugar, the new cotton, that black people work for somebody else to be richer than them.

  Haile Gerima

  People, Black, Cotton

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The true story is that black people need to tell their history. Very few films are made by black people about slavery. That itself is a crime because slavery is a very important historical event that has held our people hostage. Forget white people's role in it. In the end what's important is black people remain and live with the scars and psychological issues.

  Haile Gerima

  White, Issues, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery.

  Haile Gerima

  White, People, Black

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Wherever there's a prison, for the most part, especially where there's Black people, it's overcrowded. I don't know who really gets out.

  Terry McMillan

  People, Black, Prison

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The interesting thing about Georgia is, Atlanta is teeming with middle-class black people and black people with money - and yet there is still segregation.

  Richard Benjamin

  Atlanta, Class, People

  "Journey into the Heart of Whiteness". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. December 23, 2009.

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• Hollywood is designed to check the box office on Monday morning and see: "How'd we do? How much?" It's another facet of this whole culture of accumulation and consumption. Black people are caught up in it, white people are caught up in it, white actors, black actors, female actresses - everybody's caught up in it.

  Danny Glover

  Monday, Morning, White

  Interview with Ed Rampell, progressive.org. February 8, 2012.

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• The most important thing in my life is that trying to ameliorate, redeem, the image in particular of African American men, or Black men - I don't really even like that term, "African American," because we're Black people.

  Harry Lennix

  Men, People, African American

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The Black church is extremely important in Black America. I think most Americans themselves believe in a divine power, in a god, and I'm sure that that number increases with Black people.

  Harry Lennix

  Believe, Thinking, Numbers

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think that Hollywood is content with condescending to Black people, patronizing them, feeling sorry for us, and I think we're happy to take the pat on the head as a people and take whatever awards.

  Harry Lennix

  Sorry, Thinking, Awards

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Gangsta rap was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. Gangsta rap didnt exist.

  Alicia Keys

  Rap, Gangsta, People

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• I saw how the Government was run there [in Africa] and I saw where black people were running the banks. I saw, for the first time in my life, a black stewardess walking through a plane and that was quite an inspiration for me.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Running, Inspiration, Government

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• It isn't that black people are protected in America by the left; it's that black liberals are protected just as female liberals are protected, not conservatives.

  Andrew Breitbart

  America, People, Black

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

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• If I'm a racist, why is one of the top civil rights activists of the 1960s asking me to be a centerpiece of the MLK dinner. Why am I the only one who has the guts to stand up to this Democrat Media Complex that insists that black people must exist on the Democrat plantation.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Rights, Media, People

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

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• You need Black [people] sometimes to understand things about Black culture.

  Russell Simmons

  People, Black, Needs

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Black child poverty is higher. As I write in the epilogue, "Yes we can. No he didn't. President [Barack] Obama didn't push black people backward, but he missed the opportunity to move us forward."

  Julianne Malveaux

  Children, Moving, Writing

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• President [Barack] Obama's choice of Rahm Emmanuel as his Chief of Staff was questionable, and perhaps coverups around the police violence against black people in Chicago is reflective of Mr. Emmanuel's values.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Police Violence, People, Choices

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• I don't think a white person can write accurately and convincingly about what black people experience of oppression.

  Alice Mattison

  Writing, Thinking, White

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I heard a white writer say, 'Oh, I'd never put black people in my writing, I'm afraid I would offend someone by doing it wrong.' I can't bear that!

  Alice Mattison

  Writing, White, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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