Black Quotes - Page 11

• Either you are a victim or you victimize someone and in the hood it's no holds barred. The kid in the schoolyard that doesn't want to fight always leaves with a black eye.

  Curtis Jackson

  Kids, Eye, Fighting

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• I come out of the environment of the Deep South, where I had seen the millstone of racial discrimination weighting down my people, both the black people and the white people; and I had seen the enormous progress that we were able to make after we removed the legal restraints of a two-class society, with the whites superior and blacks inferior. So I was very convinced before I became President that basic human rights, equality of opportunity, the end of abuse by governments of their people, was a basic principle on which the United States should be an acknowledged champion.

  Jimmy Carter

  Opportunity, Rights, Government

  The National Security Archive Interview, nsarchive.gwu.edu.

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• It doesn't matter whether you're black or white, practice a different religion, come from a different culture, or have a disability. If you're different from most of the people you're surrounded by, some people might not be as tolerant as they should be.

  Brooklyn Sudano

  White, Practice, People

  Source: www.flowinsiders.com

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• I always considered myself bi-racial, because I didn't want to disconnect from either side, and I felt very strongly about that. Now, I understand that the world sees me as a black woman, a person of color, and I'm okay with that.

  Brooklyn Sudano

  Color, World, Want

  Source: www.flowinsiders.com

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• We [Black people] have always used our creativity to battle and we're not the only ones. Black Americans are certainly leaders in that simply because we were denied education and dealt with enforced illiteracy. But people seem to always forget that literacy is not the only way of learning things or conveying knowledge.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Creativity, People, Leader

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• Black Americans should be given credit for finding probably the perfect weapon; the weapon of the song. And that song continues. Most holocausts don't, so they have this bitterness left over. The phenomenon of the world, as far as Black Americans are considered, is that we are not a bitter people.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Song, Perfect, People

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• The use of soul-force for turning stones into bread would have been considered, as it is still considered, as black magic.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Soul, Magic, Bread

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anthony J. Parel (1997). “Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings”, p.147, Cambridge University Press

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• I always thought the best kind of sunglasses are the motorcycle helmets with the black plastic masks on them. That way, nobody can recognize the back of your head either.

  Bob Dylan

  Motorcycle, Way, Sunglasses

  Bob Dylan “The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career”

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• Even so We find the sea of sorrow. Black as night The sullen surface meets our frightened gaze, As down we sink to darkness and despair.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Appreciation, Night, Sea

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.1006, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It is imperative that young white men and women study the black American history. It is imperative that blacks and whites study the Asian American history.

  Maya Angelou

  Men, White Man, Asian

  "America's Renaissance Woman". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

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• It's very funny, American society: White culture can do all sorts of things and get away with it, but the minute a black person does it, it's interpreted in some way.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  White, Doe, Culture

  "'Our Sassy Black Friend' Jamaica Kincaid". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2013.

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• Being the first person to go to college that really related to me from the movie [The Butler] because being black and going to college everyone puts so much hope into you.

  Lee Daniels

  College, Firsts, Butlers

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Black folks are judged by quantity, not quality. It's a decimal point or figure. How different is that from slavery? There's no moral code, it's just about successful business for America.

  Chuck D

  Successful, America, Quality

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• With black people, there are 50 Hitlers over the course of history.

  Chuck D

  People, Black People, Courses

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• There's some homophobia within black community, but there's some strong homophobia throughout the whole of American society as well, particularly throughout the South to a degree, whether white or black. And since many of us migrated from the South, that could be a strong connection along those lines.

  Otis Moss III

  Strong, White, Community

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• Start [the movie] in color. Color is always attributed as fun, and black and white is very sad.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Fun, Black And White, Color

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• Ron Karenga wrote a book back in 1968, and in that book, he said that the reason, part of his motivation for starting Kwanzaa was because he felt that Christianity was the white man religion, and he didn't like Jews, and so he made up this lie. And he called it an African holiday because he was concerned that if he didn't call it an African holiday, that black Americans would not participate in it.

  Tucker Carlson

  Motivation, Lying, Book

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• So if you're black or brown, you can make money in America, you can get rich in America... but whatever you decide to do, it better be positive, 'cause if one person is harmed, you will be destroyed. You see Oprah, she just be giving away money. She's doing that to keep the Feds off her back.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Humor, America

  "Chris Rock: Never Scared". TV Special, April 17, 2004.

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• One thing that's coming up a lot is: are you as grumpy as you appear from this Black Books thing.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Book, Humor

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

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• I got arrested for playing chess in the street. I said, it's because I'm black, isn't it.

  Milton Jones

  Funny, Humor, Playing Chess

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• Black holes. I don't know what people see in them. Exit signs? They're on their way out.

  Tim Vine

  Funny, Humor, People

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• I'd like to do a reality show with four white people...who are dropped off in a really bad black neighborhood. And the show would be called...Cracker Hunt.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Funny, Humor, Reality

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• I think that's the core of black aesthetics: the ability to improvise. That is what has enabled our [black people's] survival.

  August Wilson

  Thinking, People, Survival

  Interview with Miles Marshall Lewis, believermag.com. November 1, 2004.

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• To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.

  Agnes Varda

  Two, People, Firsts

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• My dad was a complicated man. He was a huge racist, my dad, but he still tried to be a good father, you know? Like, he would tell me that Santa Claus was black - that way, when I found out he didn't exist, it wouldn't be that big a let down.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Funny, Dad, Father

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