Black People Quotes - Page 29

• My passion comes from the things that have historically happened to black people in Mississippi. I can honestly say that most of the things that I've accomplished in my life have come from my spirituality and my belief in God.

  David Banner

  Passion, People, Black

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• My concern was first, for the black people of Mississippi, then I became concerned for black people nationwide, now my concern is for black people all over the world. I began to realize that it's not as much about race as we think it is. It's about the rich vs. the poor. I feel as if the different races are pitted against one another so we won't see the bigger (financial disparity) problem.

  David Banner

  Thinking, Race, People

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• I will probably have a tendency to lean toward trying to resolve the issues that negatively impact black people, but the overall picture and the overall power is achieved in bringing all impoverished people together. The common denominator is pain, because we all suffer through the deaths of loved ones and eventually suffer death.

  David Banner

  Pain, Impact, Issues

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• The truth is there are people who are quite informed who still vote against their interests. I would argue that, as a Green Party supporter, I would argue that middle-class black people are voting against their interests oftentimes.

  Marc Lamont Hill

  Party, Class, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I heard black people sing and the emotion was overwhelming to me. The power of that with all the built in sorrow and joy was just overwhelming to me as a little kid. It was the real deal.

  Steve Young

  Real, Kids, People

  Interview with Gordon Ames, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

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• The boundless capacity of the African American spirit in this country to say Hallelujah anyhow, to use our joy as a weapon, to use our creativity as a weapon, to use our moral clarity and our deep experience as a weapon not just to save Black people but to save all of these people.

  Van Jones

  Country, Creativity, People

  Source: www.ebony.com

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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 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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• Mick Jagger's lips' so big, black people be going, "You got some big-ass lips!"

  Eddie Murphy

  Funny, People, Black

  "Eddie Murphy: Delirious". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 1983.

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• I look at modeling as something I'm doing for black people in general.

  Naomi Campbell

  Stupid, People, Black

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I would like to remind the black ministry and indeed all black people that God is not in the habit of coming down from heaven to solve people's problems on earth.

  Steven Biko

  People, Heaven, Black

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• Saying women aren't funny is now like saying Asians can't drive or saying black people have bad credit. It's just really, like, so obsolete.

  Whitney Cummings

  People, Black, Credit

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• Africa with 400 million Black People can
  do it. If you cannot do it, if you are not prepared to do it then you
  will DIE. You race of cowards, you race of imbeciles, you race of good
  for-nothings, if you cannot do what other men have done, what other
  nations have done, what other races have done, THEN YOU HAD BETTER DIE.

  Marcus Garvey

  Men, Race, People

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• The system knows how to cherry pick black people. It's like affirmative action - once a year, one is recognized. But what has to occur is self-emergence so if they ignore you, you don't have to disappear.

  Haile Gerima

  Self, Years, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• There was a great deal of inbreeding between the Indians and the slaves. Genetically speaking, black people are some part black, some part European.

  Alex Haley

  People, Black, Inbreeding

  Source: bookpage.com

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• The black conservative is responsible for making people question an idea that racism must be extinct before black people can overcome. Understanding that our goal is to thrive despite racism rather than fetishizing it is, in fact, the central ideological plank of people deemed "black conservatives." This is a coherent position, but that can be hard to perceive, given the way that race has been discussed in our land over the past 40 years or so.

  John H. McWhorter

  Past, Ideas, Race

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• It's so important to create roles and characters and projects that feature black people in a way that's not specifically targeted toward the niche market, which is, like, a black movie is created and it's produced and pitched so that only black people will watch it ... I want to see dynamic characters and roles that everyone wants to watch.

  Amandla Stenberg

  Character, People, Black

  "Amandla Stenberg Is Ready to Be Your Role Model" by Chaédria Labouvier, www.elle.com. August 12, 2015.

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• There aren't a lot of roles in period movies for black people. It sucks because I love that era. But, I love musicals. I love the show Glee, and I wouldn't mind being on that either.

  Megalyn Echikunwoke

  People, Mind, Black

  "Megalyn Echikunwoke Talks Showtime’s HOUSE OF LIES, DAMSELS IN DISTRESS, and NBC Pilot BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 29, 2012.

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• What I would really like to have been, given a perfect world, is a jazz pianist. I mean jazz. I don't mean rock and roll. I mean the never-the-same-twice music the American black people gave the world.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Mean, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• If I make a joke about black people or Asian people or whatever, and then an Asian comes up to me afterwards and says, "That joke offended me," I'm still more or less not going to listen, but at least it makes sense, like I said something that was about them.

  Brad Williams

  People, Black, Asian

  "Interview with comedian Brad Williams". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.

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• [T]he Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar Left, and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black. But by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.

  John Ehrlichman

  War, Lying, Hippie

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• I wanted to make sure the focus [in The Land] was on human beings themselves and their decisions, but still connected to the urban environment that people associate as being black. I think I was able to make a film without commenting on "black this or black that" and you still feel the presence of it. There's no one character who's saying "we're all black and we're all in this struggle." It's that you just feel it. Some of that is because we get the sense from a lot of independent films that black people struggle all the time.

  Steven Caple Jr.

  Struggle, Character, Independent

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• Poor is the new black. So on this film [The Land], there are poor black people, but there are also poor Latinos, and poor white people as well.

  Steven Caple Jr.

  Land, White, People

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• Interestingly enough, I feel what the show [OJ Simpson] was able to accomplish in a really masterful way is that White America could look back on the show and the documentary and say, "We understand why Black people were effusive at the acquittal of O.J. Simpson."

  Sterling K. Brown

  White, America, People

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• It was just a wonderful experience, one for the memory book for sure. The sad thing about it was that the picture came under this absurd cloud of controversy. Here was a movie based on the central theme that racism is something that is taught, and it's illustrated by this story of a dog and the efforts of humans to re-train it after it had been trained to go after black people. And it created this ridiculous controversy and wound up being the last Hollywood movie that Sam [Fuller] made.

  Curtis Hanson

  Dog, Memories, Book

  Source: www.avclub.com

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