Black Quotes

• The Republicans always do a good job of dividing and conquering. They do a really good job of making black folks, poor white folks, and Hispanics not like each other.

  

  Charles Barkley
  • Good
  • Job
  • Black

• To this day, the only argument against Obama that critics can seem to come up with involves admitting he's better than them - though they certainly season it with some racism. You know, he's that lucky black man who actually appeals to the populace. He's that elitist who got himself off food stamps and into Harvard.

  

  John Ridley
  • Up
  • Food
  • Racism

• Racial discrimination against a white is as unconstitutional as race discrimination against a black.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Race
  • White
  • Discrimination

• The film 'Black Orpheus' is one of my favorite films of all time, which is set in Carnival in Brazil.

  

  Win Butler
  • Time
  • Black

• When I am White, I win because I am White. When I am Black, I win because I am Bogolyubov.

  

  Efim Bogoljubov
  • Black
  • Win
  • White

• Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&B pretty well, and it's all a part of what we consider to be 'black music.' There is a natural synergy between the three.

  

  John Roger Stephens
  • Music
  • Age
  • Pretty

• For me going down in history being the first black American to win the gold, I think more colored people are going to start coming to the gymnastics world and say 'okay, anything is possible. If Gabby did it, then I can do it too.'

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• The first thing I do when I wake up is cardio on an empty stomach. I'll just drink water, or maybe I'll have a black coffee with no sugar, and I'll do about 25 minutes of cardio, six days a week.

  

  Jinder Mahal
  • Up
  • Water
  • Coffee

• When you're first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you're young and you're black, you do a bad movie and you're through.

  

  Chris Tucker
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Movie

• In the black sky no star is seen, somewhere in ambush lurks the Angel of Death, but the spices tongues of the masqueraders are loose and shameless A shout: 'Make way for the hero!' Ah yes. Displacing the tall one, he will step forth now without fail and sing to us about holy vengeance...

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Death
  • Star
  • Hero

• I was a mixed black girl existing in a westernized Hawaiian culture where petite Asian women were the ideal, in a white culture where black women were furthest from the standard of beauty, in an American culture where trans women of color were invisible.

  

  Janet Mock
  • Women
  • American
  • Girl

• If troubled companies want to explain away 2008 as a 'black swan,' then someone should take responsibility for creating the oil slick that seems to have tarred the entire flock!

  

  Andrew Lo
  • Black
  • Responsibility

• Young black men in this country have to understand that they have a responsibility. They cannot be the enemy in their own neighborhoods and usurp the effort of good people that are trying to make things work.

  

  Jim Brown
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I always tell young people in particular: Do not say that nothing's changed when it comes to race in America, unless you lived through being a black man in the 1950s or '60s or '70s.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • America
  • Black

• There are black marriages that are still going strong 40 years later. You hear so many myths that there aren't any people making it, but there are. As long as there are some, there's hope.

  

  Jill Scott
  • People
  • Long
  • Hope

• I have a very simple mantra and it's this: I want to make black cinema with the power, beauty, and alienation of black music. That's my big goal. The larger preoccupation is how do we force cinema to respond to the existential, political, and spiritual dimensions of who we are as a people.

  

  Arthur Jafa
  • Music
  • Cinema
  • Mantra

• As an individual, and I have to say as a person of color, the thing about being an 'other' in America is I really feel like you're bilingual. I'm from a small town in Wisconsin, but even when I'm in New York and I'm working for MSNBC or CNN, you're used to being the only black person in the room.

  

  John Ridley
  • America
  • Small
  • Color

• My philosophy is such that I am not going to vote against the oppressed. I have been oppressed, and so I am always going to have avote for the oppressed, regardless of whether that oppressed is black or white or yellow or the people of the Middle East, or what. I have that feeling.

  

  Septima Poinsette Clark
  • People
  • Feelings
  • Philosophy

• Thankfully, I already have a mogul I can pattern myself after: Oprah. We're a lot alike. I'm black, I love to relate things people talk about to myself, and people think my best friend and I are lesbians! My strength is that I'm more relatable.

  

  Jessica Williams
  • People
  • Black
  • Friend

• I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Black
  • Earth
  • Mistake

• I actually believe he is the new Cilla Black.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Believe
  • Black
  • Stupid

• Win walked over to me. He held out his palm. In the middle of it was a single black sequin from the dress Scarlet had lent me. "You lost this," he said. I giggled, slightly embarrassed to be leaving bits of myself behind. "I'm shedding.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Lost
  • Single
  • Leaving

• The humor of jazz is rich and many-sided. Some of it is obvious enough to make a dog laugh. Some is subtle, wry-mouthed, or back-handed. It is by turns bitter, agonized, and grotesque. Even in the hands of white composers it involuntarily reflects the half-forgotten suffering of the negro. Jazz has both white and black elements, and each in some respects has influenced the other. It's recent phase seems to throw the light of the white race's sophistication upon the anguish of the black.

  

  Bix Beiderbecke
  • Suffering
  • Laugh
  • Composers

• In 2014, topics like Black Lives Matter, the Middle East, and Ebola were prominent in the national discussion, with mentions of then-President Barack Obama making up a relatively small slice of the discussion on news twitter.

  

  Kristen Soltis Anderson
  • Up
  • Black
  • Small

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