Black Quotes
-
My books are not about how it feels to be a black man. My books are about how it feels to be a human being, and part of what I'm trying to sort out is what we mean - what I mean, what you mean, what everybody in the culture means - when they say 'black man,' or they say 'white person.'
John Edgar Wideman
-
There is an entire generation of young people who know nothing about how viciously the FBI attacked The Black Panther Party, and why.
Bobby Seale
-
If I'm going to be the black designer, I'm going to tell it my way.
Kerby Jean-Raymond
-
I was bullied by a freshman named Jeanine. She was black and supremely racist. Jeanine used to say, 'Brownie, go back to your country. You smell of curry,' or 'Do you smell curry coming?'
Priyanka Chopra
-
In the sociology of the left, including the NAACP, there cannot be a wound the black community inflicts on itself that is not ultimately the responsibility of malicious whites.
David Horowitz
-
The Republican Party's history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history.
Rand Paul
-
This country is just that great that the opportunities are there for a Hispanic president, a black president or any other race for a president, yes.
Chris Tucker
-
The only reason black lives matter to the Left is to secure election majorities at election time. That is the only reason that black lives matter.
David A. Clarke, Jr.
-
Social equity is based on justice; politics change on the opinion of the time. The black man's skin will be a mark of social inferiority so long as white men are conceited, ignorant, unjust, and prejudiced. You cannot legislate these qualities out of the white - you must steal them out by teaching, illustration, and example.
John Boyle O'Reilly
-
I don't like the term 'black people', I find it demeaning to those of us that actually qualify as 'people'.
Zach Braff
-
I'm a tech geek. Whenever I read about something new, I think to myself, How can I take this and make it black?
Henry Louis Gates
-
My experiences remind me that it's those black clouds that make the blue skies even more beautiful.
Kelly Clarkson
-
Bangkok is one of those places where it's so rich and full of tradition, but they're so open to different people - different gender expressions and gender identities. As a gay man, I never once felt uncomfortable there. As a black man, I never once felt uncomfortable.
Karamo Brown
-
A poetess who had died young of cancer had said in one of her poems that for her, on sleepless nights, 'the night offers toads and black dogs and corpses of the drowned.
Yasunari Kawabata
-
This house has been far out at sea all night, The woods crashing through darkness, the booming hills, Winds stampeding the fields under the window Floundering black astride and blinding wet Till day rose; then under an orange sky The hills had new places, and wind wielded Blade-light, luminous black and emerald, Flexing like the lens of a mad eye.
Ted Hughes
-
As a founder and most senior member of the CBC, John Conyers has been an advocate for the Congressional Black Caucus and a respected leader in the House of Representatives.
Marcia Fudge
