Black People Quotes - Page 11

• It's a great day in America when white people, black people and Latinos can all come together and pick on another minority.

  George Lopez

  Funny, Humor, White

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• If the [Vestiges] be true, the labours of sober induction are in vain; religion is a lie; human law is a mass of folly, and a base injustice; morality is moonshine; our labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!

  Adam Sedgwick

  Lying, Science, Men

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• The black masses want not to be shrunk from as though they are plague-ridden. They want not to be walled up in slums, in the ghettos, like animals. They want to live in an open, free society where they can walk with their heads up, like men, and women! Few white people realize that many black people today dislike and avoid spending more time than they must about white people. This 'integration' image, as it is popularly interpreted, has millions of vain, self-exalted white people convinced that black people want to sleep in bed with them - and that's a lie!

  Malcolm X

  Lying, Sleep, Ghetto

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• Since Western society is deteriorating, it has become overrun with immorality, and God is going to judge it, and destroy it. And the only way the black people caught up in this society can be saved is not to integrate into this corrupt society, but to separate from it, to a land of our own, where we can reform ourselves, lift up our moral standards and try to be godly.

  Malcolm X

  Godly, Land, People

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.282, Ballantine Books

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• The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the Black man in white Christian hands has not grown violent. It is a miracle that twenty-two million Black people have not risen up against their oppressors in which they would have been justified by all moral criteria and even by the democratic traditions.

  Malcolm X

  Christian, Men, Hands

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• Socially, hip-hop has done more for racial camaraderie in this country than any one thing. 'Cause guys like me, my kids - everyone under 45 either grew up loving hip-hop or hating hip-hop, but everyone under 45 grew up very aware of hip-hop. So when you're a white kid and you're listening to this music and you're being exposed to it every day on MTV, black people become less frightening. This is just a reality. What hip-hop has done bringing people together is enormous.

  Michael Rapaport

  Country, Hate, Kids

  "Actor Michael Rapaport’s Rap Quest". Interview with Aaron Ross, www.motherjones.com. July 01, 2011.

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• The black people's struggle has vanquished racism. It was God who created colour. Today Obama, a son of Kenya, a son of Africa, has made it in the United States of America.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Struggle, Son, America

  "Kadhafi closes AU summit, division over plans for 'United States of Africa'". www1.rfi.fr. February 4, 2009.

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• When I was in high school I made the discovery that if I was playing in a jazz club, and there were black people in the club, if I could get the black people to like what I was doing, I was on the right track. So I began to play to those people because they knew what the authentic music was. I've always had that in the back of my head.

  Paul Smoker

  School, Play, Discovery

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• But for poor black people and working-class black people, it is a much more difficult way to go. The over-incarceration of black people is just intolerable. When you look at the disparity in terms of education and access to fair schooling, it is horrible. If this would happen to white people in this country, it would not be tolerated.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Country, Class, White

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• Black people have been killed for directing their gaze at the wrong person. I want my subjects to reclaim their right to look, to see, to be seen.

  Dawoud Bey

  People, Black, Looks

  Dawoud Bey, Walker Art Center (1995). “Dawoud Bey: portraits 1975-1995”

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• It's a good time for black people to be alive.

  Nina Simone

  People, Black, Alive

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• I'm the only person on Earth who's not afraid to admit that black people are better dancers than white people! I said it, I said it! You were all thinking it, I said it!

  Carlos Mencia

  Thinking, White, People

  "Mind of Mencia". Sketch-comedy Series, 2005-2008.

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• There were no black images of dignity, no images of beautiful black people. There was this big hole. I tried to fill it.

  Roy DeCarava

  Beautiful, People, Black

  "Roy DeCarava obituary" by Richard Williams, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2009.

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• I think at the time, my radicalization was not through growing up Chinese, but through the role that the black people were playing at the beginning of World War II, when they had started the "Double V for Victory" movement - for democracy at home as well as abroad.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Growing Up, War, Home

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.

  J. B. Smoove

  Iwo Jima, People, Black

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• Black people have this thing about calling themselves apes and monkeys I know they get real (whatever) and I don't blame em'. But I feel like I'm a brute. I am, but I'm smart though. I'm not a dummy.

  Sean Price

  Real, Smart, People

  Source: www.okayplayer.com

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• Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it.

  Randall Robinson

  Tired, America, People

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• I didn't run into racism until we moved to Nassau when I was ten and a half, but it was vastly different from the kind of horrendous oppression that black people in Miami were under when I moved there at 15. I found Florida an antihuman place.

  Sidney Poitier

  Running, Florida, Racism

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• In Soviet times the border was closed so we couldn't get out of the country, and I had been reading Robinson Crusoe. I wanted to see the ocean, I wanted to see boats, I wanted to see black people, because we didn't have that in the Soviet Union. I was all excited by that stuff.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Country, Ocean, Reading

  "Wladimir Klitschko: Dr Feelgood has a cure for David Haye's disrespect". Interview with Paul Hayward, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2011.

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• The Mayans were right, as it turns out, when they predicted the world would end in 2012. It was just a select world: the G.O.P. universe of arrogant, uptight, entitled, bossy, retrogressive white guys. [...] Instead of smallpox, plagues, drought and Conquistadors, the Republican decline will be traced to a stubborn refusal to adapt to a world where poor people and sick people and black people and brown people and female people and gay people count.

  Maureen Dowd

  Gay, White, Sick

  "A Lost Civilization". www.nytimes.com. December 8, 2012.

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• I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.

  Winston Churchill

  Wise, Dog, Taken

  To the Peel Commission on a Jewish Homeland in Palestine, 1937.

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• If you want to appeal to everyone, you can't do a world tour and expect black people to show up at every date - when you're in Australia, when you're in Dubai, when you're in Indonesia.

  Kevin Hart

  Dubai, Australia, People

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• I had one incident where my daughter said that a girl asked if she was a brown person. I said, 'We're black. You have black people, white people, Chinese people, Hispanic people; we're all brought up differently.'

  Kevin Hart

  Girl, Daughter, White

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• I'm looking at the head of the household, and the house hasn't been run properly for a long time, ... Clinton was the first person ever to make a formal apology to black people for slavery, which was very warm and appreciated. But African-Americans haven't healed at all . The wound is still very open. And seeing the differences in how people live, it just puts salt in it- constantly . Seeing the way we're treated within these United States ... it burns you even more every day.

  Jill Scott

  Running, Apology, Differences

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• I'm to trying to say I'm something I'm not. Black people understand that. I'm just doing my raps, my way. Rap is black. I recognize that and respect that. I'm just a white guy trying to rap, and I got lucky.

  Vanilla Ice

  Rap, White, People

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