Black Quotes
6092 Black quotes by 3216 unique authors
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When you go to a church and you see the pastor of that church with a philosophy and a program that's designed to bring black…
— Malcolm X
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We black men have a hard enough time in our own struggle for justice, and already have enough enemies as it is, to make the…
— Malcolm X
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There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.... We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first…
— Malcolm X
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The white man knows what a revolution is. He knows that the Black Revolution is worldwide in scope and in nature. The Black Revolution is…
— Malcolm X
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The same rebellion, the same impatience, the same anger that exists in the hearts of the dark people in Africa and Asia is existing in…
— Malcolm X
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It is incorrect to classify the revolt of the Negro as simply a radical conflict of black against white or as a purely American problem.…
— Malcolm X
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One of the things that made the Black Muslim movement grow was its emphasis upon things African. This was the secret to the growth of…
— Malcolm X
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We, the Black masses, don't want these leaders who seek our support coming to us representing a certain political party. They must come to us…
— Malcolm X
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In my recent travels into African countries and others, I was impressed by the importance of having a working unity among all peoples, black as…
— Malcolm X
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Since I learned the truth in Mecca, my dearest friends have come to include all kinds -- some Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, agnostics, and even…
— Malcolm X
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There were tens of thousands of pilgrims, from all over the world. They were of all colors, from blue-eyed blondes to black-skinned Africans. But we…
— Malcolm X
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During the past eleven days here in the Muslim world, I have eaten from the same plate, drunk from the same glass, and slept on…
— Malcolm X
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Accept your place in the sun as it was originally before the creation of this world... The black man is the first and last, maker…
— Elijah Muhammad
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In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the western world came to realize that people of color…
— Jeremiah Wright
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As a result of America's efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in America are now the freest and richest black people…
— David Horowitz
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If blacks are oppressed in America, why isn’t there a black exodus?
— David Horowitz
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The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.
— Clarence Thomas
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But I know that the vote of 9 out of 10 black Americans for the Democratic Party or for leftist kinds of policies just is…
— Clarence Thomas
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Merely because I was black, it seemed, I was supposed to listen to Hugh Maskela instead of Carole King, just as I was expected to…
— Clarence Thomas
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I am a Black Feminist. I mean I recognize that my power as well as my primary oppressions come as a result of my blackness…
— Audre Lorde
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Then began an experience that turned my life around-working on a book with a black kid as hero. None of the manuscripts I'd been illustrating…
— Ezra Jack Keats
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My filmmaking education consisted of finding out what filmmakers I liked were watching, then seeing those films. I learned the technical stuff from books and…
— Paul Thomas Anderson
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The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept…
— Jonathan Lethem
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It's very difficult for a black man to get out of South-Central Los Angeles, and get out civilized....The only men I know who have escaped,…
— Larry Niven
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Consider the true picture. Think of myriads of tiny bubbles, very sparsely scattered, rising through a vast black sea. We rule some of the bubbles.…
— Larry Niven
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