Black Children Quotes
23 quotes by 21 authors
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Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.
— Julian Bond
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Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist at the…
— Audre Lorde
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If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black…
— Malcolm X
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We pass the billboard and I console myself in two ways. First, I know that most photographs taken are a gamble at best. Second and…
— Laura McPhee
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In the gun game, we are the most hunted. The river of blood that washes the streets of our nation flows mostly from the bodies…
— Harry Belafonte
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Republicans bring out Colin Powell and J.C. Watts because they have no program, no policy. They have no love and no joy. They'd rather take…
— Donna Brazile
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Black children need to see their lives reflected in the books they read. If they don't, they won't feel welcome in the world of literature.…
— Valerie Wilson Wesley
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I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of…
— Arthur Ashe
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So, to say Obama is progress is saying that he’s the first black person that is qualified to be president. That’s not black progress. That’s…
— Chris Rock
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The greatest percentage of poverty is found in female-headed households. Over 70 percent of female-headed households are poor. A large percentage of poor people are…
— Walter E. Williams
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I don't totally believe that all of the politicians see a problem with the gap between the scores of black children and other groups. I…
— Barry Williams
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In 1957, when I was in second grade, black children integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. We watched it on TV. All of…
— Henry Louis Gates
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It's a significant question: should black people only adopt black children, and white people white children?
— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
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Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below…
— Henry Louis Gates
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I used to get letters saying, 'I didn't know black children and white children were the same.'
— Dick Gregory
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The public school system is not about educating black children. Never has been. Inner-city schools are about social control. Period. They’re operated as holding pens—miniature…
— Barack Obama
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Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children.
— Billy Graham
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My father had a dairy farm. He employed three black families and one white family, and I used to play with black children.
— Billy Graham
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We grew up in a very strange world, because my mother was up against it all when she had three black children.
— Jaye Davidson
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Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow…
— Stokely Carmichael
Who Wrote These Black Children Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 23 Black Children Quotes as follows: