Black Culture Quotes

• What would America be like if we loved black people as much as we loved black culture?

  Amandla Stenberg

  America, People, Black

  "Amandla Stenberg Is a New Kind of Hollywood Role Model - One We Desperately Need" by Chaédria Labouvier, www.elle.com. July 21, 2015.

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• Black culture is a fight. We want to hold on to what we are, but sometimes the things that we are can be totally negative. You have to think: can't we try something new and not be seen as suspect?

  Donald Glover

  Fighting, Thinking, Black

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Black culture is very difficult to explain to people who don't have any direct contact with it.

  Jess Row

  People, Black, Culture

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• While it has become “cool” for white folks to hang out with black people and express pleasure in black culture, most white people do not feel that this pleasure should be linked to unlearning racism.

  Bell Hooks

  White, Racism, People

  bell hooks (2014). “Black Looks: Race and Representation”, p.17, Routledge

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• You need Black [people] sometimes to understand things about Black culture.

  Russell Simmons

  People, Black, Needs

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Black culture is cool, but black issues sure aren't, huh?

  Azealia Banks

  Issues, Black, Culture

  "Azealia Banks's Twitter beef with Iggy Azalea over US race issues misses point" by Monica Tan, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2014.

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• In the black culture, certain kids are given nicknames that they roll with forever; the nicknames outweigh their real names. I'm one of those scenarios.

  Snoop Dogg

  Real, Kids, Names

  "What I've Learned: Snoop Dogg" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. July 14, 2008.

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• I always have felt that elders are really important. I think it's because, in my little Southern black culture, elders really were respected. Everybody listened to them. They may not have agreed - that's a whole different story - but they would totally listen and consider what the elder had to say.

  Alice Walker

  Thinking, Southern, Black

  Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

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• American music culture is black culture.

  Yelawolf

  Black, Culture, American Music

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• "Black culture" is ready for whatever. I sense some momentum and excitement around black artists (especially in comedy, which is where most of my own art resides), really pushing the bounds of what has generally been expected as black. I don't think it's a revolution so much as an exposure of what has always been there, and now that the production and distribution means are more accessible, people can more easily find each other.

  Baratunde Thurston

  Art, Mean, Thinking

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• Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.

  Eddie Huang

  Black, Culture, Influence

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• I wanted to explore black culture, and I wanted that culture to be a revelation.

  Alvin Ailey

  Black, Culture, Revelations

  "Ailey's Troupe Explores Its Roots". Interview with Jennifer Dunning, www.nytimes.com. November 27, 1983.

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• We do not need to minimize the poverty of the ghetto or the suffering inflicted by whites on blacks in order to see that the increasingly dangerous and unpredictable conditions of middle-class life have given rise to similar strategies for survival. Indeed the attraction of black culture for disaffected whites suggests that black culture now speaks to a general condition.

  Christopher Lasch

  Ghetto, Order, Class

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations”, p.67, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I've always loved black culture; I don't know any other way to put it. Since I was a kid I loved music and early jazz, Sly and the Family Stone.

  Robert Greene

  Kids, Black, Culture

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• I used to joke for years that I was a black man. I adopted the black culture, the black race. I married a black woman, and I had black kids. I always considered myself a 'brother.'

  Tommy Chong

  Brother, Kids, Men

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• Black culture is something I don't relate to much at all.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Black, Culture

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• There's probably more of a struggle to get material and narratives published that really speak to black culture. And that has a lot to do with the mergers and buyouts and the corporations being more in control of the purse strings. We find that the projects have to come with higher expectations rather than books that just should be published. That's disturbing because we might find fewer and fewer children's books by African Americans or with black cultural themes.

  Jerry Pinkney

  Children, Struggle, Book

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Year after year, author/historian William Loren Katz continues to mine the lodestone of Black culture, and it is simply amazing how often he manages to find new treasures. Here, with the same insight he brought to Black Indians and his other books, the author traces the courageous role of Black women in settling the West. He deftly shows how these pioneering spirits helped stabilize early communities in Texas, Oklahoma, California and elsewhere.

  Herb Boyd

  Book, Oklahoma, Texas

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• I majored in directing. However, I did spend some time at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, so I am somewhat well-versed in African Studies.

  Chadwick Boseman

  Black, Culture, Research

  "Chadwick Boseman: The '42'". Interview with Kam Williams, www.eurweb.com. April 12, 2013.

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• I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports.

  Arthur Ashe

  Sports, Time, Children

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• I think slavery was an awful, awful period in our history, but when I look at what's become of black culture since emancipation, I think you have to admit, maybe the Confederacy was on to something

  Zach Braff

  Thinking, Black, Culture

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• Sometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn't need a man. I think that's wrong. I think we all need someone.

  Boris Kodjoe

  Independent, Men, Thinking

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• If white privilege is a thing, why are people working so hard to be black? All of the award shows and cultural events favor black culture.

  Milo Yiannopoulos

  Awards, White Privilege, People

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I'm admitting that I don't know that to be true, but it does sound pretty good. So a big part of my childhood was affecting black culture and black accents and black music and anything black I was into.

  Moshe Kasher

  Childhood, Black, Sound

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.

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• Phillip Roth uses his Black women characters to make anti intellectual remarks about Black history month, begun by a man who reached intellectual heights that Roth will never attain. Roth is a petty bigot and his ignorant remarks about black culture expose him as a buffoon to scholars the world over.

  Ishmael Reed

  Character, Men, Black History

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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