Black Quotes · Page 263

Ancient Egypt was a Negro Civilization. The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in air and cannot be written correctly until…

— Cheikh Anta Diop

I've been locked up for not having insurance, only to be released. I mean, this sort of thing is just par for…

— Jamaal Bowman

I happen to think that conservatism, when properly applied to the 21st century, could actually help everybody. And the message of Trump's…

— J. D. Vance

No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.

— Andrew Young

[Donald Trump] has really started his political activity based on this racist lie that our first black president was not an American…

— Hillary Clinton

There is an entire generation of young people who know nothing about how viciously the FBI attacked The Black Panther Party, and…

— Bobby Seale

I'm even stunned at some of the majors you can get in college these days. Like you can major in the mating…

— Rush Limbaugh

I don't have one specific tattooing specialty. I enjoy doing full-color new school, portraits, neo-traditional, realistic, black and gray, ultra detailed art,…

— William Webb

I liked Jackie Robinson because he was cool to watch, not because he was black. Every time you turned around, he was…

— Cheech Marin

That's such a great book [Bloods]. That's a perfect way to articulate this thing that we're talking about. Just because someone is…

— Paul Beatty

Observe immigrants not as they come travel-wan up the gang-plank, nor as they issue toil-begrimed from the pit's mouth or mill-gate, but…

— Edward Alsworth Ross

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between…

— Eminem

I was black and blue for about two years, but it's paid off tremendously. You know, if you get enough whacks, your…

— Lucy Lawless

I used to come out here every Fourth of July as a child to picnic and to swim on the island, to…

— Natasha Trethewey

I've married a man who owns nine cows," said Jinjur to Ozma, "and now I am happy and contented and willing to…

— L. Frank Baum

I really feel all my adult life has been spent in that little black box. If a wonderful part on TV came…

— Bea Arthur

The three of us [me, Mike Dean, Woody Weatherman] all learned how to play our instruments together. We had a common interest…

— Reed Mullin

Why should you be bogged down with my titles and how I thought about it and my poetic reasoning? No, that's not…

— Leonardo Drew

Atheism is like the highest level of white privilege. It's like having a black belt in white privilege.

— W. Kamau Bell

I know some actors don't want to see faces out there; they prefer to perform to a black wall. But I like…

— Adrian Lester

The colonists are by the law of nature free-born, as indeed all man are, white or black...It is a clear truth that…

— James Otis

I don't know why we work, my husband and I. We just do. We are black and white - yin and yang.

— Heidi Klum

I have done more for black people than any other person in the nation, North or South,

— Strom Thurmond

There are a lot of black-hearted, mean-spirited bastards in the world. It's important that we hold them to acount. But always remember…

— Darren Shan

Just as incarceration has come to define the lives of low-income black men, eviction is defining the lives of low-income black women.

— Matthew Desmond

Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.

— Yannick Noah

How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop music…

— Afrika Bambaataa

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

— Donald Sterling

…“white supremacy” is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies…

— Bell Hooks

A bleak, black book, it engenders awe and despair. I have read it in its entirety 4 1/2 times, each time finding…

— Michael Silverblatt

The colors are stunning. In a single view, I see - looking out at the edge of the earth: red at the…

— William C. McCool

I grew up wearing black arm-bands when the hunger strikers died. I went on those marches. I grew up basically a Provo,…

— Glen Hansard

I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against…

— Philip Zimbardo

Only a few kinds of images force you to shut your eyes: death, suffering, the opening of the body, some aspects of…

— Orlan

And what is the Republican solution to these outrageous [racial] inequalities? There isn't one. And that's the point. Denying racism is the…

— Bill Maher

Many of the Jews who owned the homes, the apartments in the black community, we considered them bloodsuckers because they took from…

— Louis Farrakhan

If I told you God was black, what would you think of that?

— Ray Davies

There is only black light between the stars. It may seem that it's darkness, but it's really black light. There is no…

— Frederick Lenz

“It doesn't have to be dreads. You can wear an Afro, or braids like you used to. There's a lot you can…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I grew up in traditional black patriarchal culture and there is no doubt that I’m going to take a great many unconscious,…

— Cornel West