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Black Quotes by Don Cornelius
- I felt that it was my mission to see to it that black talent had an opportunity to get national television exposure.
- Black music is too big and too powerful not to have its own awards show.
- I dont know anybody who can define it. Its like trying to define hip-hop. You cant just call it black music. Maybe it will take…
- I've been accused of not being up on hip-hop or not being a fan of hip-hop, which was never true. If you had a following…
- I was never exposed to a great deal of racism, but the Chicago I grew up in was very, very segregated. If I went four…
- I saw the general-market world, the white world. I felt that it was my mission to see to it that black talent had an opportunity…
- I'm trying to use euphemisms here, trying to avoid saying there was no television for black folks, which they knew was for them.
- I had a burning desire to see black people presented on television in a positive light.
More Black Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair. — Diane Ackerman
- When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery… — Teresa of Avila
- Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s. — Dan Aykroyd
- It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over… — Erykah Badu
- Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. — James A. Baldwin
- The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. — James A. Baldwin
- Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black. — James A. Baldwin
- The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever. — James A. Baldwin
- They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be… — Afrika Bambaataa