Black people Quotes · Page 11

“It took around 500 years to human to find out that black people are human and still they don't know why the…

— Emmanuel St-Pierre

The Black Lives Matter movement is stronger when non-black people step up for it.

— Demba Ba

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

The right to self-protection, let alone the right to bear arms, doesn't exactly apply to Black people.

— Jonathan Capehart

I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.

— Stokely Carmichael

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

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 need to share collective dollars and demand equal representation, and the way you do that is by controlling their own…

— Killer Mike

Many black people I know are proud of the Irish part of their heritage - an Irish grandparent, say - but they…

— Tom Paulin

When I was young I was one of the second generation of black people in Holland. My father was the first. My…

— Ruud Gullit

People say all lives matter. And that's true, but it's just black people that are getting shot in the back running or…

— Ras Baraka

I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful…

— Alice Walker

Presidential elections and the voter experience have long been fraught for black people. From racist poll taxes to made-up literacy tests to…

— Patrisse Cullors

The movement for black lives isn't just about black people. Black liberation has never just been about black people. It's been about…

— Patrisse Cullors

“Americans reading early colonial newspapers learned two recurring lessons about Black people: they could be bought like cattle, and they were dangerous…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“It is, then, not simply a question of black power or white power, but of how meaningfully to reenfranchise human power. This,…

— Wendell Berry

“Between 1980 and 2008, blacks made up 52.5% of homicide offenders, despite making up just 12.2% of the population. In the same…

— Milo Yiannopoulos

“I was not always a believer in reparations. I’d read TransAfrica founder Randall Robinson’s work on the subject in the late ’90s,…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Take crack cocaine. Particularly in the early days of the policy, ninety percent of the people being arrested were black, even though…

— Carl Hart

“The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the black man in white Christian hands has not grown violent. It…

— Malcolm X

I come from somewhere and from specific black people in the South, including my parents, who built our first school, and rebuilt…

— Alice Walker

The night that George Zimmerman was acquitted, I think, for black people all over the world, there was a collective feeling of…

— Alicia Garza

I think that Malcolm X was envisioning, even while he was in the Nation of Islam, a black nationalist progressive strategy toward…

— Manning Marable

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

— Michael Chabon

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

— David Olusoga

See, Barack been, um, talking down to black people on this faith-based... I want to cut his nuts off. Barack, he's talking…

— Jesse Jackson

We black people, as a whole, are at war we'll say with the white power structure. Not physically, but we have definite…

— Muhammad Ali

I've met Caucasians who are racist, but I've also heard black people say racist things.

— John David Washington

When I first started doing comedy, there was no such thing as a room that had black people and white people in…

— Trevor Noah

It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest…

— Spike Lee

Whose the spiritual people pon earth. The Black people. Dem a deal wit God. And God no let dem down.

— Bob Marley

There's no place like New York to engage so many wonderful people who care about black people.

— Khalil Gibran Muhammad

Things That Scare Republicans; Black people, Hispanic people, gay people, people with different views from them.

— Anonymous

With all the trouble black people have, they try to forget on weekends. You've got to be good to make them laugh.

— Flip Wilson

I think us, especially as black people, we don't necessarily talk about our feelings enough or talk to someone about our feelings.

— Big K.R.I.T

“It is character that should be the sole measure of judgement in the society of thinking humanity, and nothing short of that…

— Abhijit Naskar

Science fiction, extrasensory perception, and black people are judged by the worst elements they produce.

— Octavia E. Butler

Black people started wearing there pants low. White people started calling it saggin. What's saggin spelled backwards? ...tricky white people.

— Nikki Dasilva

You go to a Rico Nasty show and there's gay people, trans people, white people and black people all in the mosh…

— Kenny Beats