Black People Quotes - Page 19

• The world has white people and black people in it. Even in Harlem.

  Angela Bassett

  White, People, Black

  "Q&A: Angela Bassett Must Play Michelle Obama". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. March 22, 2013.

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• For me, as a child, I certainly thought that there were more black people in the world than white people.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Children, White, People

  "Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele of Key & Peele". Interview with Jesse Thorn, www.avclub.com. March 20, 2012.

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• I'm not saying that things now aren't better for black people. Thank God they're definitely better, but some things are still the same. "Better" is not good enough - it's not. Especially when "better" still means my life is at risk.

  Titus Kaphar

  Mean, People, Not Good Enough

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than not, on the blood of poor people, black people, Indian people. They were the ones who paid very dearly for those great fortunes.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Blood, People, Black

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• Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.

  Andrew Young

  Kings, Race, America

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• The majority of Latin actresses in Hollywood were always playing either spitfires or maids. Now here is a woman who comes in and does leads opposite white people and black people and other Spanish people, and she's comfortable in her skin? Gasp! How dare she?

  Rosie Perez

  Latin, Opposites, White

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• I like seeing things that you don't normally see. Black people are so diverse, we do so many things, we have given so much to this world - and we are constantly giving.

  Tichina Arnold

  People, Giving, Black

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Gold looks good on my skin, and gold looks good on black people, I think.

  Theophilus London

  Thinking, People, Black

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• The violence that we had in the 60's was limited. The next time it will be unlimited because the violence in the 60's was a struggle for human dignity and for human rights. The next struggle will be a struggle for survival and it will not just be limited to Black people or Black against white, but it will be the poor people, the masses of the people of the country, struggling for the right to live or the right to survive.

  Robert F. Williams

  Country, Struggle, White

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• I'm very disappointed in Barack Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks. I cannot support his caving in to Benjamin Netanyahu. I think many black people support him because they're so happy to have handsome black man in the White House. But it doesn't make me happy if that handsome black man in the White House is betraying all of our traditional values of peace, peoplehood, caring about strangers, feeding the hungry, and not bombing children.

  Alice Walker

  Children, War, Caring

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• I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts.

  Trisha Goddard

  Views, People, Black

  "Secrets and lives" by Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2003.

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• See, Barack been, um, talking down to black people on this faith-based... I want to cut his nuts off. Barack, he's talking down to black people.

  Jesse Jackson

  Cutting, Talking, Nuts

  "Sharpton on Jackson's Obama Remarks". "Hannity & Colmes" show, www.foxnews.com. July 10, 2008.

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• I remember when I had my show [The Chris Rock Show on HBO], I used to run my show. It was so hard to get people to bring sketches to me. No one had ever worked for a black person before. Even the black people hadn't worked for a black person. It literally took a month or two for everybody to know: I'm really running the show.

  Scott Raab

  Running, Two, Hbo

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I have spoken all over the world and I have great respect for Muslims, I have great respect for the African people, I have respect for the other races. Even back home in Lousiana, I'm called a racist, but I have respect for the Black people of my country and I want them to have their own life, too, and I want them to be able to pursue their own destiny and not be controlled, and not be damaged.

  David Duke

  Country, Home, Destiny

  David Duke Podcast, www.davidduke.com. August 25, 2006.

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• When I was young I was one of the second generation of black people in Holland. My father was the first. My mother was white, and living with a black man at that time and having a how-you-say half-caste boy is not easy.

  Ruud Gullit

  Mother, Father, Men

  "The flower and the glory". www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2004.

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• I really want the sense of black people being interconnected: If you black and you from Chicago, there's a connective tissue we all have. Even if you're not blood related, that doesn't mean I can't look out for you.

  Lena Waithe

  Mean, People, Black

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• I was morose that the Era of Barack Obama has returned us to a period where everything is racist, everyone is walking on eggshells, and you get the moral preening from white liberals who don't actually even know any black people. But, oh, do they love to get on their high horses and accuse Republicans of being racist for opposing very liberal government policies and a very liberal Democratic president. It's an extension of the civil rights label being slapped on gay marriage and abortion. Allow me to be bi-partisan for a moment, and love this moment because it won't last long.

  Ann Coulter

  Horse, Gay, Long

  Source: aalbc.com

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• The Democrats pretended to care about black people for about five minutes to help their electoral process, and then civil rights suddenly became abortion on demand, gay marriage, rights for the homeless, etc.

  Ann Coulter

  Gay, People, Abortion

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Yet, when Republicans were finally able to push through tough policies on crime and welfare which they'd supported for decades, they were magnificent successes for the entire country, but especially for black people. Release us, and great things will happen!

  Ann Coulter

  Country, People, Black

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Black people loving and losing is something we don’t see enough of. We’re always in these heightened situations like something big is happening, something funny or something violent. And you know what? Sometimes we die of breast cancer or a broken heart. Things happen that are just not being explored cinematically. It’s time we reinvigorated that type of film.

  Ava DuVernay

  Cancer, Heart, People

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• Weirdly enough, the best thing that ever happened to black people in the last twenty or thirty years was the O.J. Simpson verdict because it shut down the white guilt bank. And white guilt has never led to anything good. It's brought us spiraling crime rates, mostly with black victims, and a permanent underclass living in public housing projects. For years, liberals cried that "law and order" and "welfare reform" were racist code words.

  Ann Coulter

  People, Black, Guilt

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Strom Thurmond the only segregationist anyone can name. Meanwhile, the Democratic Party had former Klansmen, members of a terrorist group that was lynching and murdering black people. That was an outgrowth of the Democratic Party.

  Ann Coulter

  Party, People, Black

  Source: aalbc.com

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• We have landowners, small growers. We have people who are holding onto land that was acquired by their families after slavery. They need to produce some of the food we eat, so they can pay the taxes and hold onto the property. Taxes keep going up. We, and by we I mean black people, are rapidly becoming a landless people. Our ancestors, coming out of slavery, acquired more than 15 million acres of land. Today, we're probably down to less than 2 million acres.

  Shirley Sherrod

  Mean, People, Black

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Sometimes when you're relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there's more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world. And that just gave me a chance to see how life could be. And it gave me a chance to interact with everybody, not just black people or Mexicans. It made me just a little more worldly.

  Ice Cube

  People, Black, Important

  Source: music.avclub.com

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• A key text for me is James Baldwin's essays. And, in particular, his essay Stranger in the Village. It's a text that I've used in a lot of paintings. The essay is from the mid-'50s, when he's moved to Switzerland to work on a novel, and he finds himself the only black man living in a tiny Swiss village. He even says, "They don't believe I'm American - black people come from Africa." The essay is not only about race relations, but about what it means to be a stranger anywhere.

  Glenn Ligon

  Believe, Mean, Men

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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