Black People Quotes - Page 16

• I think that the Vietnam War era is important because we tend not to want to revisit it. For black people, there was the temptation of disaffection. People looked for alternative ways to express themselves personally and politically, people doubted the system, and there was the terrible kind of division in black America between a radical leadership and a much older, compromising leadership.

  Darryl Pinckney

  War, Thinking, America

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• People always say 'You do racial comedy.' And I don't, exactly. I do cultural comedy. Because race and culture are two different things. There's black people from America and then there's black people from Africa. Racially, they're the same; culturally, they're extremely different.

  Russell Peters

  America, Race, Two

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

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• What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have the audacity to be asking black people [why] they hate him?

  Malcolm X

  Hate, Men, White Man

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• If you're black, you can't just be ordinary. All successful black people are extraordinary.

  Tyler Perry

  Successful, People, Black

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Just reading that - just reading that a person can be black and still perform in blackface, making fun of black people for a living, and at the same time be a genius and be an incredible entertainer and at the same time be extremely conflicted and feel like - just feel terrible for doing that, essentially, which is what Bert Williams felt, from what I gather, from what I read - all of that just made - was so incredible to me.

  Cecile McLorin Salvant

  Fun, Reading, People

  "Jazz Singer Cécile McLorin Salvant Doesn't Want To Sound 'Clean And Pretty'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 1, 2016.

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• Usually we look at it like, "Oh, black people couldn't vote in Mississippi because they had to take a literacy test." But one of the things you learn in the film is that there were major consequences for even trying to vote. You could be killed for trying to vote. You could definitely be fired from your job and many were, which is why so few black Mississippians even attempted to register early on. They put your name in the newspaper if you tried to register to vote.

  Stanley Nelson Jr.

  Jobs, Names, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I want to be able to tell black people something they don't know, something about our own lives.

  Stanley Nelson Jr.

  People, Black, Want

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• As black people, we want our story to be this constant ascendance from slavery. But it's not like that. You push and it goes up. Then there's a backlash, and if folks stop pushing, it goes down. Let's face it, it's a lot more complicated.

  Stanley Nelson Jr.

  People, Black, Stories

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I believe that Christianity trains black people, especially black women, to think like slaves, and I believe that Islam is mainly fueled by its hatred for women.

  Kola Boof

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• There are more than 100 million African women who go topless at some point in the day, each and every day, to honor both God and our ancestors. So being in a country like America where nothing is hated more than the image of the black woman, even by black people'because her womb produces the black man and makes us black'I find it of grave importance to implement African images, and especially to produce media images that acknowledge the sexual power and fertility of black women.

  Kola Boof

  Country, Men, America

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• Bernie Sanders has done a great job of, social media black kids know about him. Young black people progressives know about him. Through barbershops and barbershop tour that we have been on, we hit three barbershops a day. People know about him.

  Killer Mike

  Jobs, Kids, Media

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I think that`s the obstacle, because once black people hear Bernie Sanders policy, it`s almost instantaneous they switch. Hillary is good enough, but the policy of enough is enough that we`re going to radically change thinks really seizes with people.

  Killer Mike

  Thinking, People, Black

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• It's impossible for 30 million black people to be violent against 170 million - we need a mental revolution, unity in coming together, and not physical.

  Muhammad Ali

  People, Unity, Black

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• I'm sure no intelligent white person, in his or her right white mind, want black men and women marrying their white sons and daughters and in return introducing their grandchildren to half brown, kinky haired black people.

  Muhammad Ali

  Daughter, Son, Men

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• [Apostol Paul's] views were translated as, "Your rule is to be kind to black people; you don't beat them." It's very much the way we treated women in the 14th and 15th centuries. A woman was not human, and you should be kind to your wife like you are to all dumb animals. That was the mentality.

  John Shelby Spong

  Animal, Views, Wife

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• "Not being virulently and overtly racist against black people" and "treating gay people like human beings" are necessary conditions of greatness.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Gay, Greatness, People

  "Even if It Kills Me". Live chat, www.slate.com. March 16, 2016.

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• The images that people see in the media of black people - whether journalistic or narrative - remain horrible. And those images, combined with the lack of respect among black people in the poorer neighborhoods for themselves, and the part the police and other people coming into those neighborhoods play, it creates no value for life.

  Harry Lennix

  Media, Play, People

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• You see Martin Luther King is dead and Huey Newton is not. And Malcolm X is dead and Bobby Seale is not. And Vernon Jordan was shot. The thing that revolutionaries, or even people who want to claim they're revolutionaries, often forget is that it doesn't make no difference what kind of wardrobe you wear, and if you speak up about Black people doing better you just risked your life.

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Kings, Differences, People

  Source: agitpropspace.org

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• I was just an infant when [Fannie Lou] Hamer spoke - barley even awake in the world. But here she was, pressing the Democratic Party to refuse to recognize the all-white Mississippi delegation, because obviously there was no way Mississippi could have an all-white delegation. Black people had been kept from registering through violence and intimidation. She had experienced that violence herself and was there to speak about it and to insist the delegation of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party be recognized instead.

  Leah D. Daughtry

  Party, White, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• In 1990, when we started the Black Community Crusade for Children, we were always talking about all children, but we paid particular attention to children who were not white, who were poor, who were disabled, and who were the most vulnerable.Parents didn't think their children would live to adulthood, and the children didn't think they were going to live to adulthood. That's when we started our first gun-violence campaign. We've lost 17 times more young black people to gun violence since 1968 than we lost in all the lynching in slavery.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Thinking, Gun

  Interview with Jurnee Smollett-Bell, www.lennyletter.com. April 8, 2016.

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• I love what the church offers to us as a culture - black people in particular. We would be nowhere without the black church.

  Oprah Winfrey

  People, Black, Church

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• You got black people in an all-white country and they don't know nothing about themselves.

  Muhammad Ali

  Country, White, People

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• The teachings of Elijah Muhammad on how black people have been brainwashed.How they've been taught to love white and hate black, how we've been robbed of our names in slavery.We were robbed of our culture, we were robbed of our true history. So it left us a walking dead man.

  Muhammad Ali

  Hate, Teaching, Men

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• Saying I want to pay women a fair wage is doing something and saying young black people deserve not to be called super predators but to be engaged from an economic standpoint that gives them an equal opportunity says doing something.I`m tired of talking.

  Killer Mike

  Tired, Opportunity, Talking

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I was guided by Allah (God) to give a yardstick to the voting public, particularly Black people as to what will set that candidate apart from others.

  Louis Farrakhan

  People, Giving, Voting

  "Farrakhan: 'I never endorsed Mr. Trump or any of the candidates'". Interview with Richard Muhammad, www.finalcall.com. March 8, 2016.

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