Black People Quotes - Page 28

• 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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• I am for Obama, all the way. I dont support Obama just because he is a black man; I support him because he is an educated black man. He is making black people proud.

  Tony Yayo

  Men, People, Support

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• People in apartheid South Africa can tell you that God cursed black people when they cursed Him. And so the hermetic people were condemned to be drawers of water and of wood.

  Desmond Tutu

  People, Water, Black

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

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• When you think of the KKK, they actually have as their emblem a fiery cross. And they don't see any contradiction between the cross, an instrument of suffering that procured our reconciliation with God, and its use as a symbol for nefarious attacks on black people. But they believe that they are being obedient to God because they can read things that they see.

  Desmond Tutu

  Believe, Thinking, Kkk

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

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• Soul was the music made by and for black people. For most of the Sixties it was thoroughly divorced from white popular music, but by the end of the decade several artists with their roots firmly in both soul and R&B traditions had crossed over.

  Jon Landau

  Artist, Roots, White

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• The NYPD must stop acting like the only thing black people do is run from them and shoot at them. Believe it or not there are some black New Yorkers who won't run and can't shoot -- they're called the #‎ Knicks .

  Bill Maher

  Running, Believe, People

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• Because when you unite, that is the power of God, you know. God love Love, which is unity. So when you unite, you get the whole power of God. That's what him want. Until Black people unite...if the Black people don't unite, the world, no one, no one can live good.

  Bob Marley

  God, People, Black

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• Black people beating whites when a thug got shot holding a gun by a black officer haha (expletive) cracks me up! Keep kneeling for the anthem!

  Steve Clevenger

  Gun, Thug, People

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• One of the things I'm going to say out there is how grateful I am - and how grateful the world is - for the tremendous gift of the black people, of jazz.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Grateful, People, Black

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• In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts that much. And we didn't recognize marriages that much, either.

  Ike Turner

  Men, People, Black

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• I have a no-die clause in every movie. The black people can't be dying all the time.

  Queen Latifah

  People, Black, Dying

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• That kind of thing happens to black people every day in this country, and they don't receive that kind of sentence he did, which was to go to prison on the weekends; I think he lectured there-an outside lecturer.

  Ishmael Reed

  Country, Weekend, Thinking

  "Ishmael Reed – July 1-7, 1983, in Emeryville, California". Interviewed with Reginald Martin, aalbc.com. July 1, 1983.

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• Within the lesbian community I am Black, and within the Black community I am a lesbian. Any attack against Black people is a lesbian and gay issue, because I and thousands of other Black women are part of the lesbian community. Any attack against lesbians and gays is a Black issue, because thousands of lesbians and gay men are Black. There is no hierarchy of oppression.

  Audre Lorde

  Gay, Men, Issues

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• When you dishonor the the utter glory and majesty of black people, you lie. Your heart lies to you and you let it

  Sinead O'Connor

  Lying, Heart, People

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• A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked... . We as black people, we as people, we as the human species have got to get used to the fact we're not going to be right most of the time, not even when our intentions are good. We've got to go naked and see what happens.

  Nikki Giovanni

  People, Black, Naked

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• The easy answer is to say that it's a part for black people to see black heroes, but to me it's important to young Mexican kids to see a black hero.

  Adrian Younge

  Hero, Kids, People

  "Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Younge Turned the '2016 Black Experience' Into the 'Luke Cage' Soundtrack". Interview with Justin Davis, www.complex.com. October 5, 2016.

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• The laws of spiritual physics will not allow you to lead somebody that you don't love, that you don't care about, that you resent, that you look down on. That's why the Republicans can't lead black people. And that's why Democrats increasingly can't lead these straight, white, male demons that we hate so much.

  Van Jones

  Spiritual, Hate, Law

  Source: pen.org

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• There was always resistance and there was always a counter-narrative, but we were told all through the early twentieth century that black people in the South don't want an education, they don't want to vote, they're simple people, they don't want this, they don't want that.

  Bill Ayers

  Simple, People, Black

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• The short-range involves the long-range. Immediate steps have to be taken to reeducate our people into the, a more real view of political, economic, and social conditions in this country, and our ability in, in a self- improvement program to gain control politically over every community in which we predominate, and also over the economy of that same community as here in Harlem. Instead of all the stores in Harlem being owned by white people, they should be owned and operated by black people.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Real, Taken

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• Barack Obama's administration responded to the Haitian crisis within 24 hours. Here comes the soldiers, here comes the food, go go go... Rush Limbaugh told his multi-millions of listeners that Obama only did that to gain favour with black people in America. This is the kind of idiocy that I have to deal with in my country.

  Henry Rollins

  Country, America, People

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• The condition of visibility as it relates to black people was crucial. Connected to that, I've always been interested in science fiction and horror films and was acutely aware of the political and social implications of Ralph Ellison's description of invisibility as it relates to black people, as opposed to the kind of retinal invisibility that H.G. Wells described in his novel Invisible Man.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Men, People, Political

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I started, I was aware of using the black as a rhetorical device. It's understanding that black people come in a wide range of colors, but you find instances in a lot of black literature in which the blackness is used as a metaphor.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Color, People, Understanding

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I was in Mecca I noticed that their, they had no color problem. That they had people there whose eyes were blue and people there whose eyes were black, people whose skin was white, people whose skin was black, people whose hair was blond, people whose hair was black, from the whitest white person to the blackest black person.

  Malcolm X

  Eye, Hair, Blue

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• There were very few black people in Montana but we never felt out of place.

  Charley Pride

  People, Black, Montana

  Charley Pride, Jim Henderson (1994). “Pride: the Charley Pride story”, William Morrow & Co

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• You know, you walk through this hotel, you're not going to see all white people; you're not going to see all black people; you're going to see what the world looks like. I promised myself that if I ever got an opportunity where I would be able to make a difference and have a say, that I would want to deliver [that] message [of inclusivity].

  George Lopez

  Opportunity, White, Differences

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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