Black People Quotes - Page 17

• I travel a lot. It used to be, when I would go to any country, I could guarantee that the first question would establish my name, and the fact that I've written Roots, and the third question, at least no later than the fourth question would not be a question, so much as a statement, something like, "We understand that in America white people do such and such bad things to black people."

  Alex Haley

  Country, Guarantees That, Names

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• I just feel in a lot of ways black people are so much looser and cooler. Just as a culture, it's so much more real.

  Paul Reubens

  Real, People, Black

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In my experience I haven't met too many uptight black people. I'm sure they're out there. Like I'm some big authority and I've lived in the inner city and ghetto.

  Paul Reubens

  Ghetto, Cities, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I say the n-word, black people are clear that I'm on their side. And it's not disingenuous - I am on black people's side, clearly.

  Neal Brennan

  People, Black, Sides

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• If you're into social justice it's hard not to be on black people's side.

  Neal Brennan

  People, Justice, Black

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• If there are older black people in the audience that I can see I will not say the n-word. I know they grew up with a different meaning.

  Neal Brennan

  People, Black, Different

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• And what happens a lot of times when - let's just speak specifically white and black - when white or black people feel misunderstood when it comes to talking about race, they immediately get defensive.

  Regina King

  White, Race, Talking

  "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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• For a long period of time, the media covered rap music and hip hop the same way they cover a lot of black people, people of color, you know, the bad news happens to be news. They used to have these little stupid colloquialisms that pop up like, "You know what? No news is bad news!" They trick the masses into thinking that any news is great for you. And I just think that's a piece of crap.

  Chuck D

  Stupid, Rap, Thinking

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 12, 2012.

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• You see, in recent history, the Democrat party has created the illusion that their agenda and their policies are what's best for black people.

  Elbert Guillory

  Party, People, Black

  "‘Free at Last’: La. State Senator Explains Why He Recently Left the ‘Government Plantation’ & Joined GOP in Powerful Video". Video Statement, www.theblaze.com. Junuary 18, 2013.

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• Everything about us black people is complicated, us being here, being a minority, being a woman, all those things are complicated.

  Nicole Beharie

  People, Black, Minorities

  "Exclusive! Nicole Beharie Talks Career Choices, Burden Of Representation, Being An “It” Girl & More". Interview with Vanessa Martinez, www.indiewire.com. August 27, 2011.

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• It's a significant question: should black people only adopt black children, and white people white children?

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

  Children, White, People

  "Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje: 'I didn't want to be black. So I joined the skinheads...'" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2012.

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• I've always taken pride to be the white guy that can talk to the black people, that can refer to them truly as a brother from a different mother.

  Duane Chapman

  Mother, Brother, Taken

  "Exclusive Interview With Duane 'Dog' Chapman". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. November 6, 2007.

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• Black jurors sit on juries every day and convict black people every day.

  Johnnie Cochran

  People, Black, Jury

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• Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose some of their alienation. This museum has certainly stood for that in this town.

  Katherine Dunham

  Museums, Should Have, People

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• Nothing is out of our realm, because it has nothing to do with color. As black people, we're not different from anyone else, other than the exterior.

  Marla Gibbs

  Color, People, Black

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.

  Bobby Fischer

  Men, White Man, People

  "Bobby Fischer's Pathetic Endgame" by Rene Chun, www.theatlantic.com. December 2002.

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• We kind of reduce our responsibility to not saying the N-word and to condemning the Klansmen, rather than saying many of our celebrated institutions are systemically racist. Many of our institutions that deal with law enforcement or controlling the bodies of Black people are systemically racist. Many of our educational institutions are systemically racist. Many of our corporate institutions are systemically racist. We don't have those conversations, so things don't change.

  Nate Parker

  Educational, Responsibility, People

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• I wrote two poems about the 81 uprisings: Di Great Insohreckshan and Mekin Histri. I wrote those two poems from the perspective of those who had taken part in the Brixton riots. The tone of the poem is celebratory because I wanted to capture the mood of exhilaration felt by black people at the time.

  Linton Kwesi Johnson

  Taken, Uprising, Two

  "Trust between the police and the black community is still broken" by Linton Kwesi Johnson, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2012.

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• I'm light skinned, and I used to lean on that because that's something a lot of black people pride themselves on, and it's weird.

  Chance the Rapper

  Pride, Light, People

  "Chance the Rapper remembers 'talking white' and fighting black on Acid rap" by Nadeska Alexis, www.mtv.com. May 14, 2013.

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• Black people don't know what white people are talking about when they talk about a Sister Souljah moment. I tell them it's the moment you meet a proud, beautiful black woman you can never forget.

  Sister Souljah

  Beautiful, Talking, White

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• Anything that could be conceived of that would separate black people from white people was devised and codified by someone in some state in the South. There were colored and white waiting rooms everywhere, from doctor's offices to the bus stations, as people may already know.

  Isabel Wilkerson

  White, Doctors, Waiting Rooms

  "Great Migration: The African-American Exodus North". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 13, 2010.

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• Why can't we have fine black restaurants with fine service by black people who always gave good service? Because we thought that is demeaning and it's not, it's a good living.

  Leah Chase

  People, Black, Good Service

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• I am angry about the world's conditions for black people.

  Brenda Fassie

  People, Black, World

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• For me, soldiers are all equal. Those black people wore your same uniform, fought on your side, and so you will be in the same jail.

  Erwin Rommel

  Your Side, Jail, People

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• Donald Trump's slogan: "Let's make America great again." And when I hear that, that seems to suggest there was a moment in the past when America really was great, you know, when women knew their places, when we could set dogs on black people in Mississippi, when young people went and sit in at lunch counters and were assaulted by others. That's about the death of memory. That's about memory being basically suppressed in a way that doesn't allow people to understand that there were things that happened in the past that we not only have to remember, we have to prevent from happening again.

  Henry Giroux

  Dog, Memories, Past

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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