Black Quotes

Teenagers especially are very, very conscious about what is hip and what is lame and what is square and what is out and what is in, you know. And, I mean, I grew up right there in the middle of a black culture. And I knew dead-on what it was.

Jerry Leiber
- Up
- Black
- Culture
When in life do you get a black and white printout that says this is what you should do? It just doesn't happen.

Warren Littlefield

Though the rampant racial injustices throughout the criminal justice system were offensive to me and to millions of other people, I've never drawn a tight circle around the black community to define the limits of my moral concern. But that narrative tends to get imposed on you, if you're an African-American activist.

Van Jones
In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right.

Yannick Noah
- Black
- Right
- Africa
'HEAVN' is about black girlhood, about Chicago, about the people we miss who have gone on to prepare a place for us somewhere else, about the city/world we aspire to live in. I hope this album encourages listeners to love themselves and love each other.

Jamila Woods
- People
- World
- Live
I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- Think
- Black
- Too Much
Not one black man is prominent in Brazil. The Negroes there are still at the bottom.

Malcolm X
- Man
- Black
- Brazil
Martin Luther King was a misguided leader. He worked to be recognized as the leader of black America when what black America needs isn't a leader, it is education.

Jim Brown
- America
- Education
- King