Black Quotes - Page 12

• You know how Mexican restaurants always have "border" in the name: Border Grill, Border Cafe. You wouldn't do that to black people: Kunta's Kitchen or Shackles. They don't do it to white people. You don't see the Honkey Grill, the Cracker Barrel... oh, nevermind.

  George Lopez

  Funny, Humor, Names

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• Barack Obama may be black, but John McCain is the first Albino presidential candidate: he's completely see-through!

  George Lopez

  Funny, Humor, Presidential

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• I'm a whitebread cracker. That's my favorite white person slur: "whitebread". The other day, someone came up to me and said, "What's up, whitebread?" And I was like, "That's not even an insult. That's just my race plus a food. I can do that, too, black bean soup! Stay out of this, Asian chicken platter!"

  Mike Birbiglia

  Funny, Humor, Race

  "Comedy Central Presents / Mike Birbiglia: 2". www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• Have you heard his new song? 'Cause he thinks he's a black man now.

  Natasha Leggero

  Funny, Song, Humor

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• Something struck me in Africa, in black Africa, where polygamy is legal: the solitary woman is the rule there, from at an extremely young age, and the children are always the mother's responsibility.

  Dacia Maraini

  Mother, Children, Responsibility

  Source: wordswithoutborders.org

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• When you first start to do jiu-jitsu everyone has the goal of being a black belt. You want to be great at everything you do.

  Junior dos Santos

  Goal, Want, Firsts

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• Production of identity is a resistance element, an aggressive element. Both a refusal and an affirmation and an assertion, and certainly, we in Jamaica were talking about black art. And the idea that there is a role for art in the civil rights revolution and in the successor to the civil rights revolution.

  Mark McMorris

  Art, Ideas, Rights

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• It's very difficult to get any movies done about Black heroes - Haitian or American - in Hollywood. The argument in Hollywood is that there is no market for those movies, and that is not true.

  Jimmy Jean-Louis

  Hero, Hollywood, Done

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• You absolutely feel, as a black actress, that you've got to ride the wave because there's just so few roles. I hate to play that card, but it's the truth. There's not a lot of roles.

  Viola Davis

  Hate, Play, Roles

  Source: collider.com

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• Most of life is grey, with a little tiny bit of black and white.

  Bill Henson

  Black And White, Littles, Tiny

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• Most of life is grey, with a little tiny bit of black and white. We're always subject to what I call the compression industry, which is an attempt to compress a million shades of grey with a little bit of black and white to just a hundred, or to ten, or to one!

  Bill Henson

  Black And White, Littles, Shade

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• Intellectual traditions emerging from populations that have always been the constitutive other in the development of the properly free citizen - indigenous people, populations labeled physically or mentally unfit, black people, migrants, women, prisoners - have always produced robust critiques of the what Dylan Rodriguez calls "white bourgeois freedom."

  Dean Spade

  White, People, Intellectual

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• Actually we've had a black bourgeoisie or the makings of a black bourgeoisie for many more decades.In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the US has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable. What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.

  Angela Davis

  Mean, Thinking, Class

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

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• We have to look at for example the increasing globalization of capital, the whole system of transitional capitalism now which has had an impact on black populations - that has for example eradicated large numbers of jobs that black people traditionally have been able to count upon and created communities where the tax base is lost now as a result of corporations moving to the third world in order to discover cheap labor.

  Angela Davis

  Jobs, Moving, Numbers

  PBS Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• I would suggest is that in the latter 1990s it is extremely important to look at the predicament of black people within the context of the globalization of capital.

  Angela Davis

  People, Important, Looks

  PBS Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• I'm thinking about some developments say in the 80s when the anti-apartheid movement began to claim more support and strength within the US. Black trade unionists played a really important role in developing this US anti-apartheid movement.

  Angela Davis

  Thinking, Support, Important

  PBS Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• Our leaders were assassinated, one of the things I was reading today was - 28 Panthers were killed by the police but 300 Black Panthers were killed by other Panthers just within - internecine warfare. It just began to seem like we were in an impossible task given what we were facing.

  Angela Davis

  Reading, Leader, Police

  PBS Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• I do think it's extremely important to acknowledge the gains that were made by the civil rights movement, the black power movement.Institutional transformations happened directly as a result of the movements that people, unnamed people, organized and gave their lives to.

  Angela Davis

  Thinking, Rights, People

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• It doesn't surprise me that aspect of the black nationalist movement, the cultural side, has triumphed because that is the aspect of the movement that was most commodifiable and when we look at the commodification of blackness we're looking at a phenomenon that's very profitable and it's connection with the rise of a black middle class I think is very obvious.

  Angela Davis

  Thinking, Class, Sides

  Frontline Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• I think that the response to the OJ Simpson trial was based on a kind of sensibility that emerged out of the many campaigns to defend black communities against police violence.

  Angela Davis

  Thinking, Police Violence, Community

  Frontline Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• I think it is important to acknowledge the extent to which the black middle class tends to rely on a kind of imagined struggle that gets projected into commodities like kente cloth for example on the one hand and images like the Million Man March.

  Angela Davis

  Struggle, Men, Thinking

  Frontline Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• I think it's important for us to recognize that although historically black communities have been very progressive with respect to issues of race and with respect to struggles for racial equality, that does not necessarily translate into progressive positions on gender issues, progressive positions on issues of sexuality and in the latter 1990s we have to recognize the intersectionality, the interconnectedness of all of these institutions and attitudes.

  Angela Davis

  Attitude, Struggle, Thinking

  Frontline Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• Often young black people are looking towards the alternative economies. They are looking towards the drug economy.... the economies that are going to that apparently will produce some kind of material gain for them.

  Angela Davis

  People, Drug, Gains

  Frontline Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.

  Angela Davis

  Thinking, Community, Needs

  Frontline Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• The de industrialization of the US. economy based on the migration of corporations into third world areas where labor is very cheap and thus more profitable for these companies creates on the one hand conditions in those countries that encourage people to emigrate to the US. in search of a better life. On the other hand, it creates conditions here that send more black people into the alternative economies, the drug economies, women into economies in sexual services, and sends them into the prison industrial complex.

  Angela Davis

  Country, Hands, People

  Frontline Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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