Black Quote by Bell Hooks

I'm one of those persons who think that watching black people suffer is not an idea of entertainment. I know a lot about African…

— Harry Lennix

I think that's the core of black aesthetics: the ability to improvise. That is what has enabled our [black people's] survival.

— August Wilson

A very hurting thing for Black Americans - to feel that we can't love our enemies. People forget what a great tradition we have…

— Bell Hooks

That is the thing that brought the Black community through so many of the hardships that we've faced historically. It's the ability to love…

— KiKi Layne

The blacks of this region are a cheerful, careless, dirty, race, not hard worked, and in many respects indulgently treated. It is of course…

— William C. Bryant

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual…

— Alice Walker

A Black man should be more independent and depend on himself for his freedom and not to take it for granted that someone would…

— Steven Biko

The negroes are lovers of ludicrous actions, and hence all their ceremonies seem farcical.

— Isaac D'Israeli

In American history, Black people are usually the ones doing the work, pushing the boundaries of what America is supposed to mean, challenging the…

— Jason Johnson

The background of the Negro culture is voodoo and magic; and the purposes the magic are control and power over God, man, nature and…

— R.J. Rushdoony

And it is to rock the soul and lead the person to immorality, corruption - to forget their prayers, to forget their God. And…

— Warren Jeffs

That existential crisis is something you rarely see portrayed by black characters; the idea that people think about their own existence and that they…

— Boots Riley