Black People Quotes - Page 6

• There is something about Sundiata [Acoli] that exudes calm. From every part of his being you can sense the presence of revolutionary spirit and fervor. And his love for Black people is so intense that you can almost touch it and hold it in your hand.

  Assata Shakur

  Hands, People, Black

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• The media love to cover black people on the front page. After all, when you live in a society that will lock up about 30 percent of all black men at some time in their lives and send more of them to prison than to college, chances are a fair number of those black faces will end up in the newspaper.

  Michael Moore

  College, Men, Media

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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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• Some playwrights are obvious influences on younger writers. Arthur Miller (realistic, politically engaged dramas) and Christopher Durang (satirical dark comedies) are examples. But August stands apart, ... He has his special way of seeing things. I remember he and I were at one of those fancy benefits the Rep has. The gay men's chorus was singing, and I was very proud to have brought them into a Rep event. And August says, 'You know, I don't see any black people up there.' That was his focus the lives of black people.

  Daniel J. Sullivan

  Drama, Gay, Dark

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• The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.

  Clarence Thomas

  People, Black, Way

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• Richard exhaled. It was like somebody sprinkling pepper on his wound: Thousands of Biafrans were dead, and this man wanted to know if there was anything new about one dead white man. Richard would write about this, the rule of Western journalism: One hundred dead black people equal to one dead white person.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Writing, Men, White Man

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• Without the presence of black people in America, European-Americans would not be "white"-- they would be Irish, Italians, Poles, Welsh, and other engaged in class, ethnic, and gender struggles over resources and identity. (p. 107-108)

  Cornel West

  Struggle, Class, White

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• I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had to go somewhere and do something to redeem my being alive.

  Richard Wright

  Country, People, African American

  Richard Wright (1998). “Black Boy”, Turtleback

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• No, I’m not an American. I’m one of the 22 million black people who are the victims of Americanism. One of the … victims of democracy, nothing but disguised hypocrisy. So, I’m not standing here speaking to you as an American, or a patriot, or a flag-saluter, or a flag-waver - no, not I. I’m speaking as a victim of this American system. And I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don’t see any American dream; I see an American nightmare.

  Malcolm X

  Dream, People, Hypocrisy

  "The Ballot or the Bullet". Malcolm X's Speech at Cory Methodist Church, Cleveland, Ohio, teachingamericanhistory.org. April 3, 1964.

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• We got no wealthy black people. We got rich people. Shaq is rich. The guy who signs his checks is wealthy.

  Chris Rock

  Money, People, Guy

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• Terrorism is not new to black people.

  Vernon Jordan

  People, Black, Terrorism

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• The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the Black man in white Christian hands has not grown violent. It is a miracle that twenty-two million Black people have not risen up against their oppressors in which they would have been justified by all moral criteria and even by the democratic traditions.

  Malcolm X

  Christian, Men, Hands

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• Black people have been working hard for decades.

  Cornel West

  Work, People, Black

  "CNN Hosts Leftists Saying Cain Should Get Off 'Crack Pipe'". Interview with Suzanne Malveaux, www.mrc.org. October 10, 2011.

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• Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Lying, White, People

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• The black masses want not to be shrunk from as though they are plague-ridden. They want not to be walled up in slums, in the ghettos, like animals. They want to live in an open, free society where they can walk with their heads up, like men, and women! Few white people realize that many black people today dislike and avoid spending more time than they must about white people. This 'integration' image, as it is popularly interpreted, has millions of vain, self-exalted white people convinced that black people want to sleep in bed with them - and that's a lie!

  Malcolm X

  Lying, Sleep, Ghetto

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• Since Western society is deteriorating, it has become overrun with immorality, and God is going to judge it, and destroy it. And the only way the black people caught up in this society can be saved is not to integrate into this corrupt society, but to separate from it, to a land of our own, where we can reform ourselves, lift up our moral standards and try to be godly.

  Malcolm X

  Godly, Land, People

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.282, Ballantine Books

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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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• As far as I was concerned, the Panthers were 'baaaaaad.' The Party was more than bad; it was bodacious. The sheer audacity of walking onto the California Senate floor with rifles, demanding that Black people have the right to bear arms and the right to self-defense, made me sit back and take a long look at them.

  Assata Shakur

  Party, Self, California

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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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• Homophobia is easier for black people where black people are concerned. They feel they have the right to correct me on my behavior. There is this notion that homosexuality is something that white people do.

  David McAlmont

  White, People, Black

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