Black Community Quotes
57 quotes by 47 authors
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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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How did we suddenly become entranced with gangster culture? I saw it this morning on campus. When did the black community say we should all…
— Tim Reid
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I can no more disown (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white…
— Barack Obama
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We have to launch a national campaign against homophobia in the black community,
— Coretta Scott King
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Blackness is a state of mind and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room,…
— Halle Berry
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I understand how difficult it can be for an African-American in today’s society. In fact, I can relate to black people very well indeed. My…
— Mitt Romney
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This will play right into Obama's hands. He's humanitarian, compassionate. They'll use this to burnish their, shall we say, 'credibility' with the black community --…
— Rush Limbaugh
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I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community…
— Rod Blagojevich
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Those in the community who defy authority and 'break the law' seem to enjoy the good life and have everything in the way of material…
— Huey Newton
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Earlier in my college career, there was no doubt in my mind that as a member of the Black community I was somehow obligated to…
— Michelle Obama
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The first eight years of schooling was with all white people. So that helped me to understand how white people think. I think that transition…
— Will Smith
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Within the lesbian community I am Black, and within the Black community I am a lesbian. Any attack against Black people is a lesbian and…
— Audre Lorde
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Progressive policies are harming the Black community.
— Deneen Borelli
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The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And what we had done is, we wanted…
— Bobby Seale
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Seven out of 10 black faces you see on television are athletes. The black athlete carries the image of the black community. He carries the…
— Arthur Ashe
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I don't think President Obama has been that revolutionary in reaching out to ethnic communities. President Reagan did a lot for the black community that…
— Terrence Howard
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Who are the slumlords in the Black community? The so-called Jews. … Who is it sucking our blood in the Black community? A white imposter…
— Louis Farrakhan
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The Republican Party just isn't held in high repute in the black community. Under Bill Brock we were reaching out to broaden the base of…
— Charles H. Percy
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Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.
— David Sanborn
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We used to say in the black community that if somebody else caught a cold, we caught pneumonia.
— Gwen Ifill
Who Wrote These Black Community Quotes
47 authors contributed a total of 57 Black Community Quotes, led by these top contributors: