Black people Quotes · Page 17

[ 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

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

— Lauryn Hill

For me, soldiers are all equal. Those black people wore your same uniform, fought on your side, and so you will be…

— Erwin Rommel

I don't understand why black people feel this undying need to want to be down with white people all the time.

— Tony Rock

“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

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

I'm sure no intelligent white person, in his or her right white mind, want black men and women marrying their white sons…

— Muhammad Ali

In my experience I haven't met too many uptight black people. I'm sure they're out there. Like I'm some big authority and…

— Paul Reubens

Black people dance well because we start early - there's music being played everywhere. White people? They don't start dancing until they…

— Tracy Morgan

I say violence is necessary. Violence is a part of America's culture. It is as American as cherry pie. Americans taught the…

— H. Rap Brown

What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have…

— Malcolm X

I think it's really important that we understand the ways in which blackness plays out, right, and discrimination against black people impacts…

— Opal Tometi

Reparative justice is not about black people standing on the street corners expecting charities from white folks. This is about building of…

— Hilary Beckles

At this time I'd like to say a few words especially to my sisters: SISTERS. BLACK PEOPLE WILL NEVER BE FREE UNLESS…

— Assata Shakur

“All these self-serving efforts by powerful factions to define their racist rhetoric as nonracist has left Americans thoroughly divided over, and ignorant…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“The FHA had adopted a system of maps that rated neighborhoods according to their perceived stability. On the maps, green areas, rated…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Merely because I was black, it seemed, I was supposed to listen to Hugh Maskela instead of Carole King, just as I…

— Clarence Thomas

There is no difference. So what, the skin color is a different shade? But what the heck should that mean? Why should…

— Amber Hope

Slavery wasn't something that grew up in the American South. and black people were not the first to be slaves in America.…

— Lorne Greene

Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for…

— Whitney M. Young

“The destroyers will rarely be held accountable. Mostly they will receive pensions. And destruction is merely the superlative form of a dominion…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

We are fighting so that insults may no longer rule our countries, martyred and scorned for centuries, so that our peoples may…

— Amilcar Cabral

There's a price tag on everything including black people's lives and what they do with them.

— Vince Staples

“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

Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a…

— Nate Parker

Black people beating whites when a thug got shot holding a gun by a black officer haha (expletive) cracks me up! Keep…

— Steve Clevenger

Didnt! (SMACK!) I! (SMACK!) TELL! (SMACK!) YOU! (SMACK!) TO! (SMACK!) Shut Up! (SMACK!) Move Yo Damn Hand (SMACK!) (SMACK!) Lol

— Deon Crockett Jr

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

— Janis Joplin

“Did Jefferson really believe Black people were smart in slavery and stupid in freedom?13 Notes”

— Ibram X. Kendi

What Martin Luther King is doing is disarming the black people of America of their God-given right and of their natural right.

— Malcolm X

All the poor white people, all the poor black people, all the Hispanics, they're in the same boat. They've got no economic…

— Charles Barkley

I am part of a legacy of queer black women who have fought for the freedom of black people across the globe.

— Patrisse Cullors

Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many…

— Dinesh D'Souza

The single most important lesson I learned is that black people are the cause of black people's demise.

— KRS-One

“Black(people) hold onto their God just as the drunken man holds on to the street lamp post—for physical support only.”

— Tai Solarin

When I say the n-word, black people are clear that I'm on their side. And it's not disingenuous - I am on…

— Neal Brennan

Throughout history there have been black people who have played mammies, all sorts of offensive images, who didn't mind doing it.

— Marc Lamont Hill