Best Black People Words
388 Black People quotes by 238 unique authors
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What Black Consciousness seeks to do is to produce real black people who do not regard themselves as appendages to white society. We do not…
— Steven Biko
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Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of…
— Jared Diamond
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I believe that when it comes to major foreign policy issues, many prefer to have black people seen and not heard.
— Cynthia McKinney
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There haven't been fundamental structural changes in America. There's been a very important symbolic change and that is the election of Barack Obama. But the…
— Henry Louis Gates
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To be Christian is to be one of those whom God has chosen. God has chosen black people!
— James H. Cone
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Black racism is a myth created by whites to ease their guilt feelings. As long as whites can be assured that blacks are racists, they…
— James H. Cone
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For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people.
— Linda Chavez
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The only black people you found were occasional characters or characters who were so feeble-witted that they couldn't manage anything, anyway. I wrote myself in,…
— Octavia Butler
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You always see black people complaining about this and that, but you never see me complaining about how slow they work on my plantation.
— Zach Braff
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Oh sure, I have a few black people in my family tree. They're probably still hanging there.
— Zach Braff
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I don't like the term 'black people', I find it demeaning to those of us that actually qualify as 'people'.
— Zach Braff
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It's not that George Bush doesn't care about black people, god made hurricanes, not people who can't swim.
— Zach Braff
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IQ tests are routinely used as weapons against Black people in particular and minority groups and poor people generally. The tests are based on white…
— Huey Newton
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We are fighting so that insults may no longer rule our countries, martyred and scorned for centuries, so that our peoples may never more be…
— Amilcar Cabral
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Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land.
— Cornel West
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Black History Month is dedicated to heroes that paved the way for Black people. It's a month that's very imperative because it gives those who…
— Alana Beard
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Black History Month is a great celebration for Black people everywhere. I just hope we get to the point as Black people that we celebrate…
— Unknown Author
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A cynic had defined aid as simply the system by which poor white people in rich countries gave money to rich black people in poor…
— Wilbur Smith
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God created black people and black people created style.
— George C. Wolfe
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People make jokes about how black people are the first ones to be killed off.
— Sanaa Lathan
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When I first started writing plays I couldn't write good dialogue because I didn't respect how black people talked. I thought that in order to…
— August Wilson
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Recognize that being one of the only black people in an organization, or just in a meeting, automatically makes you very visible. Use this to…
— Kenneth Chenault
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This is our culture, and I don't care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is scared of something. He doesn't…
— Betty Carter
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When white people wear baggy clothing and speak gibberish they're homeless, when black people wear baggy clothing and speak gibberish they're called rappers
— Carlos Mencia
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The data is going to indicate sadly that when the Obama administration is over, black people will have lost ground in every single leading economic…
— Tavis Smiley
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