Black People Quotes

388 quotes by 255 authors

It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's… — Erykah Badu
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
But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people. — Charles Barkley
The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white… — Eden Ahbez
It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater. — Alvin Ailey
Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country. — H. Rap Brown
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
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
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
I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people. — Stokely Carmichael
One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the… — Stokely Carmichael
I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free. — Muhammad Ali
Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not come easily. Slavery… — John Henrik Clarke
Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs... I knew that my heart would break if ever I… — Maya Angelou
Terrorism is not new to black people. — Vernon Jordan
The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the Black man in white Christian hands has not grown violent. It is a miracle… — Malcolm X
Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job,… — Whitney M. Young
The black masses want not to be shrunk from as though they are plague-ridden. They want not to be walled up in slums, in the… — Malcolm X

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