Black Family Quotes

• The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.

  Al Sharpton

  Dream, White, House

  "Who's Distorting the Civil Rights Movement?" by Glenn Beck, www.foxnews.com. July 16, 2010.

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• The Black family of the future will foster our liberation, enhance our self-esteem, and shape our ideas and goals.

  Dorothy Height

  Self Esteem, Ideas, Goal

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• The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn't have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river.

  Kerry Washington

  Children, Taken, Men

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 18, 2012.

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• You know, growing up, I lived in a neighborhood in Long Island where there was basically one black family. And I remember hearing all the parents and the kids in the neighborhood say racist things about this family.

  Lorraine Bracco

  Growing Up, Kids, Islands

  "New Again: Destiny’s Child". www.interviewmagazine.com. January 29, 2013.

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• If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.

  Kanye West

  Song, White, Black

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• A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.

  Saul Alinsky

  Black And White, Racism, Community

  Quoted in Jonathon Green, Morrow's International Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (1982)

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• We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist in the Sixties, it was a bit grim growing up.

  Craig Charles

  Growing Up, White, Black

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• A revolutionary woman can't have no reactionary man. If he's not about liberation, if he's not about struggle, if he ain't about building a strong Black family, if he ain't about building a strong Black nation, then he ain't about nothing.

  Assata Shakur

  Strong, Struggle, Men

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• The welfare state has done to Black Americans what slavery (and Jim Crow and racism) could not have done. . .break up the black family. Today, just slightly over 30 percent of black kids live in two-parent families. Historically, from the 1870s on. . . 75-90 percent of black kids lived in two-parent families.

  John Stossel

  Kids, Two, Racism

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• Trump says he wants to run for president. Why not? It wouldn't be the first time he pushed a black family out of their home.

  Snoop Dogg

  Running, Home, Black

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• The black family unit that had survived 150 years of slavery was decimated in less than 30 years by welfare payments that stopped if the family structure remained intact.

  Larry Burkett

  Years, Black, Slavery

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• I was the fifth child in a family of six, five boys and one girl. Bless that poor girl. We were very poor; it was the 30s. We survived off of the food and the little work that my father could get working on the roads or whatever the WPA provided. We were always in line to get food. The survival of our family really depended on the survival of the other black families in that community. We had that village aspect about us, that African sense about us. We always shared what we had with each other. We were able to make it because there was really a total family, a village.

  Cecil Williams

  Girl, Children, Father

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Theoretically, you can make, obviously, a powerful argument that centuries of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination are the primary cause for all those gaps. That those were wrongs done to the black community as a whole, and black families specifically, and that in order to close that gap, a society has a moral obligation to make a large, aggressive investment, even if it's not in the form of individual reparations checks, but in the form of a Marshall Plan, in order to close those gaps. It is easy to make that theoretical argument.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Order, Community

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• It would certainly would be great to see more films featuring the black family and showing that we are capable of having that unit strong and present and beautiful, because that's so much of who we really are.

  Nia Long

  Beautiful, Strong, Black

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I felt like it was a courageous show [Black-ish] from the beginning. We are a black family - we're not a family that happens to be black. But the show is not even about us being black. The show is about us being a family. That is groundbreaking - on TV, the black characters either happen to be black or they're the "black character," where everything they say is about being black. I think that's the genius.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Character, Thinking, Black

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.

  Andrew Young

  Black, Slavery, Welfare

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• Most black families have roots, whether Christian, Muslim or other religions, and that journey is unique for each individual.

  Omar Epps

  Christian, Unique, Journey

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• And, for example, like, when you're having the conversation with your child about getting their driver's license. Well, a white family - their biggest fear is just that you're driving safely and that they're minding the rules of the road, whereas a black family - their biggest fear is that their child is going to get pulled over and treated unfairly for a reason that they won't understand.

  Regina King

  Children, White, Black

  "For Actress Regina King, A Childhood Gig Launched A Career In Hollywood". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 21, 2016.

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• The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state.

  Thomas Sowell

  Black, Crow, Expansion

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• Those on the left who scream about income gaps choose to focus on the success of those at the top rather than the failures of those at the bottom. They conveniently ignore that liberals are the ones who have pushed the moral relativisim and welfare-state dependence that has destroyed black families over the last 60 years. And it is these same liberals who fight to keep low-income kids in failing public schools and fight efforts to get school choice.

  Star Parker

  School, Kids, Fighting

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• Studies that bring clarity and direction to the black male situation as an integral part of the black family/community are unpopular, not easy to get published and very dangerous.

  Haki R. Madhubuti

  Community, Black, Males

  Haki R. Madhubuti (1990). “Black men: obsolete, single, dangerous? : Afrikan American families in transition : essays in discovery, solution, and hope”, Third World Pr

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• I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey. There was this tiny area of Summit where most of the black families lived. My parents and I lived in a duplex house on Williams Street.

  Ice T

  House, Parent, Black

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• George Bush doesn't care about black people... They're saying black families are looting and white families are just looking for food... they're giving the (Army) permission to shoot us.

  Kanye West

  Song, Army, White

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• There are black men who are madly in love with white women. God bless them, if that's what works for them. I just hope that we can strike a balance that portrays black folks and the black family in a light that's not extreme. Those are the types of characters that I find myself attracted to.

  Nia Long

  Character, Men, Light

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Whether we want to own up to it or not, the welfare state has done what Jim Crow, gross discrimination and poverty could not have done. It has contributed to the breakdown of the black family structure and has helped establish a set of values alien to traditional values of high moral standards, hard work and achievement.

  Walter E. Williams

  Hard Work, Achievement, Crow

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