Black People Quotes - Page 10

• They don't let many black people in the governor's mansion in Alabama, unless they're cleaning.

  Charles Barkley

  People, Black, Alabama

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• The problem is that white people see racism as conscious hate, when racism is bigger than that. Racism is a complex system of social and political levers and pulleys set up generations ago to continue working on the behalf of whites at other people's expense, whether whites know/like it or not. Racism is an insidious cultural disease. It is so insidious that it doesn't care if you are a white person who likes Black people; it's still going to find a way to infect how you deal with people who don't look like you.

  Scott Woods

  Hate, White, People

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• I love black people, but I hate niggers.

  Chris Rock

  Hate, People, Black

  "Wind them up and watch them go" by Kathy Sweeney, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2001.

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• I don't believe in aliens. I don't think aliens or ghosts like black people. We never get abducted; our houses never get haunted. It always happens in rural areas, where no ethnic people live. The day I see somebody from South Central Los Angeles say, 'Man, I got abducted yesterday,' then I'll believe it.

  Xzibit

  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• I've never seen a sincere white man, not when it comes to helping black people. Usually things like this are done by white people to benefit themselves. The white man's primary interest is not to elevate the thinking of black people, or to waken black people, or white people either. The white man is interested in the black man only to the extent that the black man is of use to him. The white man's interest is to make money, to exploit.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Thinking, White Man

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• At the KFC there's, lot of black people there innit *laughs*

  Thom Yorke

  Kfc, People, Laughing

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• In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable.

  Angela Davis

  Mean, Class, People

  "Frontline", www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• Kools and Newports were for black people and lower-class whites. Camels were for procrastinators, those who wrote bad poetry, and those who put off writing bad poetry. Merits were for sex addicts, Salems were for alcoholics, and Mores were for people who considered themselves to be outrageous but really weren't.

  David Sedaris

  Sex, Writing, Class

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• Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today.

  Angela Davis

  Couple, Numbers, People

  "Frontline", www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• The same crime element that white people are scared of black people are scared of. While they waiting for legislation to pass, we next door to the killer. All them killers they let out, they're in that building. Just because we black, we get along with the killers? What is that?

  Tupac Shakur

  Doors, White, People

  "Tupac: Resurrection". Documentary, January 22, 2003.

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• That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color being thrown into a status that involves work in alternative economies and increasing numbers of people who are incarcerated.

  Angela Davis

  Thinking, Color, Numbers

  PBS Interview, www.pbs.org.

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• Every now and then you get a nice Jewish kid who likes black people and they would come in, and it would be a stream of them, and have black friends and really feel the black struggle on the acting tip and it's a reason why all of us are not dying in the movie.

  Mike Epps

  Nice, Struggle, Kids

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

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• I'm a pop enigma. I live and breathe every element in life. I rock a bespoke suit and I go to Harold's for fried chicken. It's all these things at once, because, as a taste maker, I find the best of everything. There's certain things that black people are the best at and certain things that white people are the best at. Whatever we as black people are the best at, I'ma go get that. Like, on Christmas I don't want any food that tastes white. And when I go to purchase a house, I don't want my credit to look black.

  Kanye West

  Rocks, White, People

  "Entertainer of the Year: Kanye West". Interview with John Mcalley, www.spin.com. December 21, 2007.

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• Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row

  Danny Glover

  Country, People, African American

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• I think it talks about the fact that there are black people in the world who have tremendous amount of talents and have no channel through which they can those talents.

  Joe Morton

  Thinking, People, Black

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• Imagine a film such as Inception with an entire cast of black people - do you think it would be successful? Would people watch it? But no one questions the fact that everyone's white. That's what we have to change.

  Idris Elba

  Successful, Thinking, White

  "The god in Idris Elba". Interview with Afua Hirsch, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2011.

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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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• 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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• Terrorism is not new to black people.

  Vernon Jordan

  People, Black, Terrorism

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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