Black Quotes
6092 Black quotes by 3216 unique authors
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Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.
— Gwendolyn Brooks
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Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we…
— H. Rap Brown
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Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
— H. Rap Brown
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But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country.…
— H. Rap Brown
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In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country: that's the Mexican American, the…
— H. Rap Brown
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The Black Mamba collection of watches is me: It is my alter ego, so to speak. As I mentioned before, it is sharp, cutting edge…
— Kobe Bryant
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I'm lying in my bed, blanket is warm, this body will never keep me safe from harm. I still feel your hair, black ribbons of…
— Jeff Buckley
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In 1980, I moved to Chicago, and I recorded demo tapes for my friends' bands, and in 1981, the first Big Black record - the…
— Steve Albini
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It's unfortunate that in an interview sometimes things can seem so black and white.
— Gisele Bundchen
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
— William S. Burroughs
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The day will come - and it is not far off - when the legacy of Lincoln will finally be fulfilled at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,…
— George H. W. Bush
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I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you that you -…
— George H. W. Bush
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Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined in and we just did…
— Geezer Butler
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I am an American. Black. Conservative. I don't use African-American, because I'm American, I'm black and I'm conservative. I don't like people trying to label…
— Herman Cain
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They call me racist too just because I disagree with a President who happens to be black. You are not racists - you are patriots.
— Herman Cain
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Most of the ancestors that I can trace were born here in the United States of America. And then it goes back to slavery. And…
— Herman Cain
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The only tactic liberals have is to try to intimidate people into thinking that the Tea Party is racist. The Tea Party is not a…
— Herman Cain
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This whole notion that all African-Americans are not going to vote for Obama is not necessarily true. I believe a third would vote for me,…
— Herman Cain
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Patrick Demarchelier was the one who got me my first 'Vogue' cover. It was French 'Vogue' - I think in '87 or '88. I think…
— Naomi Campbell
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I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues,' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I…
— Jane Campion
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My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess.
— Mariah Carey
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My father identified as a black man. No one asked him because he was clearly black. But people always ask me. If we were together,…
— Mariah Carey
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It is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. It is a…
— Stokely Carmichael
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Integration is a man's ability to want to move in there by himself. If someone wants to live in a white neighborhood and he is…
— Stokely Carmichael
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I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
— Stokely Carmichael
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