Black people Quotes · Page 15

“King Kong was stunningly original for showing images of racist ideas—without ever saying a word about Black people,”

— Ibram X. Kendi

Poor is the new black. So on this film [The Land], there are poor black people, but there are also poor Latinos,…

— Steven Caple Jr

There's a price tag on everything including black people's lives and what they do with them.

— Vince Staples

“most probably consumed the racist ideas, distancing themselves from Black people.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

I think a lot about the private emotions of black people - what we feel and yet is rarely publicly expressed.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I wish we named Hurricanes with black people names. Hurricane Sha'Londria would be so much more fun than this boring white Hurricane…

— Anonymous

Black people have always been more than our pain. The joy is so much a part of how we have survived and…

— DeRay Mckesson

I'm not romanticizing black people, because we've got gangsters like everybody else.

— Cornel West

“Like I said, at Williamson I'm cool by default because I'm black. I can go out there and do a silly dance…

— Angie Thomas

I think that many black people thought this would be a wonderful and extraordinary thing, for a black family to occupy the…

— Randall Kennedy

When I was a player the mentality was black people would make good players but weren't captain material or managerial material. That…

— Chris Hughton

I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of…

— Jesmyn Ward

If you're born in America with a black skin, you're born in prison, and the masses of black people in America today…

— Malcolm X

There is a linear way in which black comedians are expected to talk about race by all audiences - black people are…

— W. Kamau Bell

“And just as some conceptualize racism as an inherent property of all white people, there are those who view trauma as a…

— Bradley Campbell

“Does anyone in this room have it?" "No, Chris, no one here has it." "How do you know?" "Because the mark was…

— Chris Crutcher

“Frank Marshall Davis, the former Communist who was Obama’s mentor in Hawaii, was so radical that he opposed President Truman’s Marshall Plan…

— Dinesh D'Souza

“Whiteness is not a kinship or a culture. White people are no more closely related to one another, genetically, that we are…

— Eula Biss

“Acknowledging that my skin was, in fact, Cocoa as it is, would have destroyed their narrative about who I really was. Therefore…

— Mitta Xinindlu

“You who came of age in the past decade have had eight years of a Black U.S. president, and that gloss looked…

— Mohja Kahf

If we [black people] do not show up and support the march towards cinematic equality, the march towards being on a level…

— Terrence Howard

“These efforts curtailed the ability of black people to buy better housing, to move to better neighborhoods, and to build wealth. Also,…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I have just as much right to stay in America - in fact, the black people have contributed more to America than…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

“The cities change. The bus line is different. The train runs on another track, but the scene is the same. Everyday in…

— Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor

It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you're associating with black people.

— Donald Sterling

Black youth, in general, have no understanding of our past. Young black people who don't know who Martin Luther King Jr. was,…

— Yolanda King

[ Negro leaders] never let the white man know exactly what black people are thinking.

— Malcolm X

Hip-Hop isn't just music. It also a spiritual movement of blacks! You can't just call hip-hop a trend.

— Lauryn Hill

I don't understand why black people feel this undying need to want to be down with white people all the time.

— Tony Rock

For me, soldiers are all equal. Those black people wore your same uniform, fought on your side, and so you will be…

— Erwin Rommel

Throughout history there have been black people who have played mammies, all sorts of offensive images, who didn't mind doing it.

— Marc Lamont Hill

The easy answer is to say that it's a part for black people to see black heroes, but to me it's important…

— Adrian Younge

There was a great deal of inbreeding between the Indians and the slaves. Genetically speaking, black people are some part black, some…

— Alex Haley

“Any ministry to black people which is not designed to effect their empowerment is designed to perpetuate their enslavement.”

— Anonymous

I think that's the core of black aesthetics: the ability to improvise. That is what has enabled our [black people's] survival.

— August Wilson

I think that unlearning race for black people is more along the lines of seriously saying blackness isn't real, race isn't real.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

Black people beating whites when a thug got shot holding a gun by a black officer haha (expletive) cracks me up! Keep…

— Steve Clevenger

Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a…

— Nate Parker

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

— Janis Joplin

Didnt! (SMACK!) I! (SMACK!) TELL! (SMACK!) YOU! (SMACK!) TO! (SMACK!) Shut Up! (SMACK!) Move Yo Damn Hand (SMACK!) (SMACK!) Lol

— Deon Crockett Jr