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title: "50 Black Folks Quotes by 44 authors"
description: "Browse 50 Black Folks quotes by 44 authors. Discover the best Black Folks sayings and thoughts."
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> [Quite frankly, black folks have always been at the core of what it's meant to make this nation human.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alicia-garza/quite-frankly-black-folks-have-always-been-at-the-core-of-what-it-s/)

[Alicia Garza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alicia-garza/)

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> [I'm tired of cookie-cutter monolithic representation of black folks.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orlando-jones/i-m-tired-of-cookie-cutter-monolithic-representation-of-black-folks/)

[Orlando Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orlando-jones/)

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> [The only black folks in town when I was growing up were me and my cousins and one other family.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/courtney-a-kemp/the-only-black-folks-in-town-when-i-was-growing-up-were-me-and-my/)

[Courtney A. Kemp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/courtney-a-kemp/)

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> [Keep on complaining about slavery and that was over 40 to 50 years ago. You know, black folks need to move on.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludacris/keep-on-complaining-about-slavery-and-that-was-over-40-to-50-years/)

[Ludacris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludacris/)

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> [What happens to Black Folks today, happens to White Folks tomorrow.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dick-gregory/what-happens-to-black-folks-today-happens-to-white-folks-tomorrow/)

[Dick Gregory](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dick-gregory/)

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> [I was doing economic development for minorities. I was getting black folks to use their dollars to help each other.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-brown/i-was-doing-economic-development-for-minorities-i-was-getting-black/)

[Jim Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-brown/)

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> [Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie/race-doesn-t-really-exist-for-you-because-it-has-never-been-a-barrier/)

[Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie/)

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> [It's good to be surrounded by black folks. Black folks are music.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jamie-foxx/it-s-good-to-be-surrounded-by-black-folks-black-folks-are-music/)

[Jamie Foxx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jamie-foxx/)

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> [Black folks are judged by quantity, not quality. It's a decimal point or figure. How different is that from slavery? There's no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-d/black-folks-are-judged-by-quantity-not-quality-it-s-a-decimal-point/)

[Chuck D](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-d/)

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> [“the black folks say that only colored boys are sent to jail, and they not because they are guilty, but because the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-e-b-du-bois-2/the-black-folks-say-that-only-colored-boys-are-sent-to-jail-and-they/)

[W.E.B. Du Bois](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-e-b-du-bois-2/)

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> [White folks needs what black folks got just as much as black folks needs what white folks got, and we's all got…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-walker/white-folks-needs-what-black-folks-got-just-as-much-as-black-folks/)

[Margaret Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-walker/)

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> [Black folks don't have a chance, so they are in the hood, dealing drugs, in a shoot-out. They do it again and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/snoop-dogg/black-folks-don-t-have-a-chance-so-they-are-in-the-hood-dealing-drugs/)

[Snoop Dogg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/snoop-dogg/)

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> [ Certainly there is a depression I think a lot of Black folks are getting ready to have come January \[2017\] and that… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ed-gordon/certainly-there-is-a-depression-i-think-a-lot-of-black-folks-are/)

[Ed Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ed-gordon/)

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> [I don't want people to go to a film of mine because they feel guilty, like, 'I have to support it because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gina-prince-bythewood/i-don-t-want-people-to-go-to-a-film-of-mine-because-they-feel-guilty/)

[Gina Prince-Bythewood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gina-prince-bythewood/)

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> [It's perfectly possible to spotlight Black joy over Black suffering. Setting the story in the past doesn't mean that Black folks do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rege-jean-page/it-s-perfectly-possible-to-spotlight-black-joy-over-black-suffering/)

[Rege-Jean Page](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rege-jean-page/)

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> [Have you ever heard of Irish, Poles, Germans, Italians and Jews being integrated? They go anywhere and just enjoy their rights. Why…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-meredith/have-you-ever-heard-of-irish-poles-germans-italians-and-jews-being/)

[James Meredith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-meredith/)

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> [You know what? That's a high-brow comment. It comes from a certain culture or certain kind of Black person. But, what is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tyler-perry/you-know-what-that-s-a-high-brow-comment-it-comes-from-a-certain/)

[Tyler Perry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tyler-perry/)

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> [One of the things about being a minority actor is that you don't have that opportunity as some of your counterparts to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georg-stanford-brown/one-of-the-things-about-being-a-minority-actor-is-that-you-don-t-have/)

Georg Stanford Brown

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> [America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pat-buchanan/america-has-been-the-best-country-on-earth-for-black-folks-it-was/)

[Pat Buchanan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pat-buchanan/)

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> [One of the things I recognized early on, doing whatever studies of black history I have, is that even though black folks…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kerry-james-marshall/one-of-the-things-i-recognized-early-on-doing-whatever-studies-of/)

[Kerry James Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kerry-james-marshall/)

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> [It's fair to say that black folks operate under a cloud of invisibility - this too is part of the work, is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carrie-mae-weems/it-s-fair-to-say-that-black-folks-operate-under-a-cloud-of/)

[Carrie Mae Weems](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carrie-mae-weems/)

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> [If we got there and we looked up and we said, "You know what? Black folks are still doing a little bit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barack-obama/if-we-got-there-and-we-looked-up-and-we-said-you-know-what-black/)

[Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barack-obama/)

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> [A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-d/a-lot-of-times-black-folks-look-for-love-in-all-the-wrong-places-you/)

[Chuck D](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-d/)

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> [The one thing I've learned, getting out to all those foreign and domestic locales, is that people in every country of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wolfman-jack/the-one-thing-i-ve-learned-getting-out-to-all-those-foreign-and/)

[Wolfman Jack](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wolfman-jack/)

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> [“Religion can be a good thing. Churches did black folks good after Reconstruction. It was the only place people like Nat Turner…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vaunda-micheaux-nelson/religion-can-be-a-good-thing-churches-did-black-folks-good-after/)

[Vaunda Micheaux Nelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vaunda-micheaux-nelson/)

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> [White folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with magic and music, and although there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-robbins/white-folks-have-controlled-new-orleans-with-money-and-guns-black/)

[Tom Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-robbins/)

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> [Thank God for Jerry Springer's show. I thought only black folks were that screwed up until I watched Jerry Springer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-barkley/thank-god-for-jerry-springer-s-show-i-thought-only-black-folks-were/)

[Charles Barkley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-barkley/)

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> [To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bell-hooks/to-counter-the-fixation-on-a-rhetoric-of-victimhood-black-folks-must/)

[Bell Hooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bell-hooks/)

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> [I'm all about black folks working together and progressing together.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lamman-rucker/i-m-all-about-black-folks-working-together-and-progressing-together/)

[Lamman Rucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lamman-rucker/)

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> [Joe Biden articulated... a very narrow view of Black folks.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-cameron/joe-biden-articulated-a-very-narrow-view-of-black-folks/)

[Daniel Cameron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-cameron/)

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> [Why are black folks singing Amazing Grace which is a song about a white slaver's conversion?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dick-gregory/why-are-black-folks-singing-amazing-grace-which-is-a-song-about-a/)

[Dick Gregory](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dick-gregory/)

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> [Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dick-gregory/let-me-tell-you-never-before-in-the-history-of-this-planet-has/)

[Dick Gregory](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dick-gregory/)

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> [Black folks aren't asked to make films about all white people. But what would have happened if we did? What would white…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramell-ross/black-folks-aren-t-asked-to-make-films-about-all-white-people-but/)

[RaMell Ross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramell-ross/)

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> [At our peril, we ignore the fact that black vernacular, like the blues, both has a form and performs... For just as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-young/at-our-peril-we-ignore-the-fact-that-black-vernacular-like-the-blues/)

[Kevin Young](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-young/)

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> [There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ta-nehisi-coates/there-s-a-long-tradition-of-black-folks-pleading-with-white-people-it/)

[Ta-Nehisi Coates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ta-nehisi-coates/)

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> [ \[...\] the only folks who kill black folks any more are black folks. \[...\] black folks kill more black folks than the… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-nutter/the-only-folks-who-kill-black-folks-any-more-are-black-folks-black/)

[Michael Nutter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-nutter/)

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> [You always have some trans girl saying, 'Oh, they were just being funny! They aren't really transphobic,' Just like you will always…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angelica-ross/you-always-have-some-trans-girl-saying-oh-they-were-just-being-funny/)

[Angelica Ross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angelica-ross/)

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> [I lived in a low-income Black community, grew up with kids on welfare and with Black folks driving Cadillacs, going to private…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-wiley/i-lived-in-a-low-income-black-community-grew-up-with-kids-on-welfare/)

[Maya Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-wiley/)

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> [I can tell you from personal experience it gets a little tiring having to make the rounds on cable shows to explain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-ridley/i-can-tell-you-from-personal-experience-it-gets-a-little-tiring/)

[John Ridley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-ridley/)

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> [Trust me, Black folks are tired of always having to save this country from itself and then being ignored once the winner…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-capehart/trust-me-black-folks-are-tired-of-always-having-to-save-this-country/)

[Jonathan Capehart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-capehart/)

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                        "text": "White folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with magic and music, and although there has been a steady undercurrent of mutual admiration, an intermingling of cultures unheard of in any other American city, South or North; although there has prevailed a most joyous and fascinating interface, black anger and white fear has persisted, providing the ongoing, ostensibly integrated fete champetre with volatile and sometimes violent idiosyncrasies.",
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                        "text": "Thank God for Jerry Springer's show. I thought only black folks were that screwed up until I watched Jerry Springer.",
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                        "text": "To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination.",
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                        "text": "Why are black folks singing Amazing Grace which is a song about a white slaver's conversion?",
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