Black people Quotes · Page 2

I marvel at the many ways we, as black people, bend but do not break.

— Kristin Hunter

God is going to punish the white man for his misdeeds toward black people.

— Malcolm X

Unfortunately, I don't know many black people.

— Miriam Margolyes

“This is the time for black people to stand and be counted.”

— Allan Dare Pearce

Racist dermatologists think all black people have really bad skin.

— Anthony Jeselnik

Black people are not often considered mainstream.

— Lamman Rucker

Noyfriends; ain't nobody got time for that! ;)

— Anonymous

I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.

— Bell Hooks

Eddie [Murphy] is an icon. He's one of the reason why I started doing comedy in the beginning. He opened a lot…

— Tracy Morgan

To me, we are the most beautiful creatures in the whole world. Black people. And I mean that in every sense.

— Nina Simone

Black people are expected to be passive citizens, good immigrants, mute and grateful.

— David Olusoga

“Black people live their whole lives in a fantasy world, it's just not their fantasy.”

— Michael Chabon

It's no surprise that White people say things when they are together about Black people.

— Henry Louis Gates

Black people are inferior to Caucasians. Blacks constitute a totally distinct group; they overshadow the country with the germ... of evil.

— David Wilmot

Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.

— H. Rap Brown

I can't think of the last Asian that I ran into that talked about internment camps. But black people always want to…

— Candace Owens

“Now let me ask you all a question, what's more pathetic and sad to you? A bunch of poor black people who…

— T.J. Kirk

If you don't like the NRA, get a million black people to join. Go to the convention. Realize that this ain't white…

— Killer Mike

I don't think that everything on Broadway relates to us, and I think that's why we as black people don't always go…

— Stephanie Mills

I think it's always been especially hard for black people to let go of musicians who do heinous things because music is…

— Amanda Seales

“To be fair, I hate the N-word and avoid using it because the N-word has always been a pejorative, a word designed…

— Roxane Gay

“Finally, don’t put on a Let’s Be Fair tone and say “But black people are racist too.” Because of course we’re all…

— Chimanada Ngozi Adichie

My struggle has allowed me to transcend that sense of shame and stigma identified with my being a Black gay man. Having…

— Marlon Riggs

Some white people are privileged, some aren't. Some black people are, some aren't. It's strikes me as, by definition, a racist attack…

— Tucker Carlson

The true story is that black people need to tell their history. Very few films are made by black people about slavery.…

— Haile Gerima

The short-range involves the long-range. Immediate steps have to be taken to reeducate our people into the, a more real view of…

— Malcolm X

“You may have heard the talk of diversity, sensitivity training, and body cameras. These are all fine and applicable, but they understate…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Part of the history of black people in the western hemisphere, in some ways, has been fleeing from this notion that they…

— Kerry James Marshall

“One of racism’s harms is the way it falls on the unexceptional Black person who is asked to be extraordinary just to…

— Ibram X. Kendi

You have a plantation where you have 10 white people and you have about 50 or 60 black people. The automatic thought…

— Aldis Hodge

For black people in the western hemisphere, if you can't generate a mythology that creates models of heroism and power out of…

— Kerry James Marshall

There are places and spaces for black writers to write about race as a central thing. It's important. We're still dealing with…

— Kwame Alexander

Black people have been working hard for decades.

— Cornel West

I look at modeling as something I'm doing for black people in general.

— Naomi Campbell

“In the biological sense, race does not exist.”

— Abhijit Naskar

There's not too many rich black people in this world.

— Barry Bonds

“If origin defines race, then we are all Africans – we are all black.”

— Abhijit Naskar

It is in your hands to create a better world for all who live in it.

— Nelson Mandela

“There is a thin line between poetry and word salad.”

— Richard Carl Evans

There are no black people in Iraq, so how will they know who to shoot at?

— Greg Giraldo