Black Quotes - Page 30

• A Black Belt under the Nogueira Brothers is like saying I got a free toy in my happy meal

  Chael Sonnen

  Brother, Meals, Toys

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• We are Germans. We are Armenians. French, Italian, Russian, American, Asian, African... many other nationalities. We are Christians, Jewish, Muslim and Hindu. We are black, we are white. We are a community of some many differences, so complex and yet so simple. We do not need to have war!

  Michael Jackson

  Christian, War, Italian

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• I can't tell Black people to fight a war that is Israel's war. What kind of leader will you be, or should I be, to allow these babies Black, white and brown, to fight Israel's war, because Zionists dominate the government of the United States of America and her banking system.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Baby, Religious, War

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• Black is not a notion. Africa is not a color. Africa is a culture. So you can be pitch black and I am my color but I'm more African than you can ever be because culturally there are certain things that you just don't understand.

  Jihan El-Tahri

  Color, Culture, Certain

  "Africa First 2012 Profile: Advisor Jihan El-Tahri On Pressures, Successes & Criticisms Of Program". Interview with Tambay A. Obenson, www.indiewire.com. April 10, 2012.

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• There is a linear way in which black comedians are expected to talk about race by all audiences - black people are like this, white people are like this - and it really is hard to break through that. I never was doing it that way.

  W. Kamau Bell

  Race, Break Through, White

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• I was born a poor black child.

  Al Gore

  Children, Jerk, Comedy Movie

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• It is frustrating having to walk through America having to bob and weave people's impressions of me because they see a tall, black guy walking down the street. That is frustrating.

  Justin Simien

  America, People, Guy

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• There's a lot of movies about self absorbed white men and I just figured it's about time to make a movie about self absorbed black men.

  Neil Drumming

  Men, Self, White Man

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• In Europe I couldn't be anything but a black cook working for somebody. My inspiration was to own, to be the chef.

  Marcus Samuelsson

  Inspiration, Europe, Chef

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• That's the nature of my [stand-up] act: black man with a white baby.

  W. Kamau Bell

  Baby, Men, White

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• I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery.

  Haile Gerima

  White, People, World

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think most people, in their lifetime, have seen somebody who has the ability to use force lord it over other individuals. I see a lot of those videos, and I am disturbed by people being yanked out of their cars, and it seems to be a disproportionate amount of young black men. I'm disturbed by it.

  Rand Paul

  Men, Thinking, People

  "Nine pre-debate questions with Rand Paul". Interview with David Weigel, www.washingtonpost.com. October 28, 2015.

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• I come from the best era of film I believe; when people were taking chances on films. It's time for us to bring more truth to the story and not necessarily carry a torch for every Black person in America; just tell a story, and a good one too.

  Romany Malco

  Believe, America, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• When I was a teenager, black pride became newly popular again. Suddenly a lot of black people were wearing the fake kente cloth and red black and green and Bob Marley. That was sort of my window into finding my own identity as a black person.

  W. Kamau Bell

  Teenager, Pride, People

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• When I was a kid and we played baseball we used to use that "eye black" stuff sometimes - that kind of grease you put under your eyes to reduce glare or something. We only used it, of course, to look cool; it's not like we were any better prepubescent athletes for reducing glare.

  Ben Lerner

  Baseball, Athlete, Kids

  "Despair strikes me as eminently reasonable and boring". Interview with Tao Lin, believermag.com. September 2014.

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• I do think it's important for black writers to show that we too can make it into the mainstream. Growing up, I didn't just watch The Cosby Show, I watched Growing Pains and Family Ties too. We can tell those stories too.

  Lena Waithe

  Growing Up, Pain, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• To me, entertainment is really the new plantation. It's the new sugar, the new cotton, that black people work for somebody else to be richer than them.

  Haile Gerima

  People, Cotton, Sugar

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The true story is that black people need to tell their history. Very few films are made by black people about slavery. That itself is a crime because slavery is a very important historical event that has held our people hostage. Forget white people's role in it. In the end what's important is black people remain and live with the scars and psychological issues.

  Haile Gerima

  White, Issues, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Life is much more complex than the black-and-white sound bites that you get on television. There are nuances and shades of gray.

  Joe Berlinger

  Black And White, Sound, Television

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I don't want to live in a monoculture of any kind. I don't want to live in a wealthy monoculture, a black monoculture. I don't want to live in an elitist, progressive monoculture.

  Richard Benjamin

  Want, Kind, Progressive

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Of course, there isn't really a black population in Idaho or Utah.

  Richard Benjamin

  Idaho, Utah, Population

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• It doesn't do any good to just be on the side of black people. The funnier comedic position is to be on the side of oppressed people in general.

  W. Kamau Bell

  People, Sides, Comedic

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The colors black and white are my uniform, to honor the working class. People like my parents, who were janitors and had to wear a uniform every day. It keeps me grounded.

  Janelle Monae

  Black And White, Color, Class

  "Janelle Monae: 'Silence is our enemy, and sound is our weapon'" by Brittany Vickers, edition.cnn.com. October 22, 2015.

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• Because of its exceptional capacity for self-criticism, the West took the initiative in abolishing slavery; the calls for abolition did not resonate even in black Africa, where rival African tribes took black prisoners to be sold as slaves in the West.

  Ibn Warraq

  Self, African Tribes, Criticism

  Source: counterjihadreport.com

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• My fan base is extremely random. It's the 14-year-old white kid sitting next to your auntie from St. Luke's Baptist Church, to the 20-year-old Black girl who probably would go to a Rihanna concert, but she's coming to my show.

  Robert Glasper

  Girl, Kids, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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