Black People Quotes - Page 5

• I heard someone say that all black people got rhythm. Bullshit.

  Ray Charles

  Music, People, Bullshit

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• I'm just honest. They [asians] don't want to see black people generally in their movies.

  Bill Maher

  People, Black, Want

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• The condition of truth, is to allow suffering to speak. Which means attend to suffering of the least of these, of the orphan, the widow, the poor, the working people, the gay brother, the lesbian sister, the transgender, the black people.

  Cornel West

  Brother, Mean, Gay

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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• You have to take your hat off to the homosexual and gay community cause right now they're as strong as black people USE to be when it comes to their rights.

  Tyrese Gibson

  Strong, Gay, Rights

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• When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Positive, Basketball, Believe

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• To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good. To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  White, People, Black

  "In Defense of a Loaded Word" by Ta-Nehisi Coates, www.nytimes.com. November 23, 2013.

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• One of the worst things that happened to black people in America historically is integration. People ask me why I say that and I tell them it's because we gave up all of our control.

  David Banner

  America, People, Black

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• There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.

  Toni Morrison

  Cities, People, Black

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.258, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• As black people we were out to further our equality. I don't pay attention to the controversial connotations put on by media and the undermining labels they place on us. We pay attention to what our community situation is and what we need.

  Chuck D

  Media, People, Community

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.

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• I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.

  Stokely Carmichael

  Country, Hippie, Rights

  Black Power Address at UC Berkeley, delivered October 1966, Berkeley, CA

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• I spent seven months in Africa and came back saying there isn't anything you can say about black people that you couldn't say about, say, pink people except that they're black.

  Larry Rivers

  Seven Months, People, Black

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• Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that.

  Henry Louis Gates

  America, People, Black

  "Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. March 19, 2008.

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• Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.

  Henry Louis Gates

  America, People, Black

  "Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. March 19, 2008.

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• If black people mistrust white people, they are mistrusting racism, and that is appropriate.

  Jasmine Guy

  White, Racism, People

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• Imagine a film such as Inception with an entire cast of black people - do you think it would be successful? Would people watch it? But no one questions the fact that everyone's white. That's what we have to change.

  Idris Elba

  Successful, Thinking, White

  "The god in Idris Elba". Interview with Afua Hirsch, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2011.

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• A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people.

  Toni Morrison

  Country, Believe, White

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• For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event.

  Toni Morrison

  Country, Media, Long

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.256, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I feel like I come from a smaller off shoot of black people because I am mixed. People say I’m African American but that doesn’t include the other half of me.

  Maya Rudolph

  People, African American, Black

  Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 6, 2009.

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• I don't believe in aliens. I don't think aliens or ghosts like black people. We never get abducted; our houses never get haunted. It always happens in rural areas, where no ethnic people live. The day I see somebody from South Central Los Angeles say, 'Man, I got abducted yesterday,' then I'll believe it.

  Xzibit

  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• I was asked for years about being a Republican, probably because most black people are Democrats. My mother heard it once and called me and said 'Charles, Republicans are for the rich people.' And I said, 'Mom, I'm rich.'

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Mom, Mother

  Charles Barkley (2002). “I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It”, p.76, Random House

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• Poor white people and poor black people just don't know how much they have in common. Rich people don't give a damn about either group.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, White, People

  Charles Barkley (2002). “I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It”, p.34, Random House

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• These people didn't know anything about black people, so the only thing they could imagine was the worst thing.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, People, Black

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• I do not admit... that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America, or the black people of Australia... by the fact that a stronger race, a higher grade race... has come in and taken its place.

  Winston Churchill

  Real, Taken, Race

  "The Churchill you didn't know". To Palestine Royal Commission, 1937, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2002.

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• The scheme, my dear Marqs. which you propose as a precedent, to encourage the emancipation of the black people of this Country from that state of Bondage in wch. they are held, is a striking evidence of the benevolence of your Heart. I shall be happy to join you in so laudable a work.

  George Washington

  Country, Heart, People

  George Washington, Thomas J. Fleming (1967). “Affectionately Yours, George Washington: A Self-portrait in Letters of Friendship”, New York : Norton

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• If the [Vestiges] be true, the labours of sober induction are in vain; religion is a lie; human law is a mass of folly, and a base injustice; morality is moonshine; our labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!

  Adam Sedgwick

  Lying, Science, Men

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