Black people Quotes · Page 14

The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people…

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

I'm going to let you in on a little secret: Black people are not afraid of White people. We're afraid of 'crazy'…

— Jonathan Capehart

Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

For me, as a child, I certainly thought that there were more black people in the world than white people.

— Keegan-Michael Key

Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I love being black. People look at me like I'm crazy cause I love myself, and I look at them like they…

— Taisha N Wright

“For that more ennobling narrative, as for much of American history, the fact of black people is a problem.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

The notion that Black people must be protected from a free ID to secure the vote is not just insane, it is…

— Mark Robinson

I'm thankful to be a mixed racial person in skateboarding. I'm part Japanese too, so when I go over to Japan everyone…

— Nyjah Huston

“Oh Maker, what did they really say about your black creation? I think you made a beautiful work of art on a…

— Chinonye J. Chidolue

I'll tell you what's at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Mainstream media has convinced people that black people aren't relatable. So when a Jewish person comes up to me and is all,…

— Issa Rae

We live in a world where black people are targeted for death and destruction, and we should not be surprised when moments…

— Patrisse Cullors

White communities - and I exempt poor white communities from this - have power over their representation. White people have the ability…

— Yance Ford

In the spirit of debunking racial stereotypes, the one that black people don't like to swim, I'm going to tell you how…

— Mellody Hobson

White people moving into Brooklyn, I don't see anything wrong with that. I think that's fine and I think that's beautiful, but…

— Big Daddy Kane

I remember one summer I played, like, with the granddaughter of this known Klan member. Like, all summer we caught cicadas. And…

— Dee Rees

“But some people don’t want to believe that, because if varying degrees of blackness become normalized, then that means society has to…

— Phoebe Robinson

Once you dive into the African-American struggle or whatever you want to call it and you look past that, you realize that…

— Joey Badass

“With every Black first, the blame shifted to those Black people who failed to break away. Du Bois’s The Crisis tried to…

— Ibram X. Kendi

In England, you feel like a member of the revolutionary guard the minute you even mention race. But I do think that…

— David Harewood

There is still an assumption among many people that to be black is to be lower class. In the last fifteen to…

— Ayana Mathis

“But most Americans cannot comprehend the scrutiny that black people have been under since the days we were dragged here in bondage.…

— Walter Mosley

You see Martin Luther King is dead and Huey Newton is not. And Malcolm X is dead and Bobby Seale is not.…

— Gil Scott-Heron

Like many black people, I initially viewed the armed forces with a degree of suspicion.

— Clive Lewis

There are not enough Black people in America that we can just throw out our problematic brothers.

— Jason Johnson

For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people.

— Linda Chavez

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

— Ibram X. Kendi

Black power is organizing the rage of Black people and putting new hard questions and demands to white America.

— Charles Hamilton Houston

“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

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

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

— Donald Sterling

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

— Cornel West

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

— DeRay Mckesson

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

— Malcolm X

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

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

— Anonymous

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

— Lauryn Hill