Best Black People Lines

388 Black People quotes by 238 unique authors

Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance of race in… — Michelle Alexander
It should be remembered that hundreds of people of African ancestry also walked the Trail of Tears with the Cherokee during the forced removal of… — Wilma Mankiller
The Holocaust would never have happened if black people lived in Germany in the 1930s and 40s … well, it wouldn't have happened to Jews. — Sarah
Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact — John Henrik Clarke
The NYPD must stop acting like the only thing black people do is run from them and shoot at them. Believe it or not there… — Bill Maher
I am for Obama, all the way. I dont support Obama just because he is a black man; I support him because he is an… — Tony Yayo
It's time for Black people to stop playing the separating game of geography, of where the slave ship put us down. We must concentrate on… — John Henrik Clarke
Here's the thing. When we talk about race relations in America or racial progress, it's all nonsense. There are no race relations. White people were… — Chris Rock
Mick Jagger's lips' so big, black people be going, "You got some big-ass lips!" — Eddie Murphy
It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you're associating with black people. Do you have to? — Donald Sterling
Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America. More specifically, Barack Obama is the president of a congenitally racist country, erected upon… — Ta-Nehisi Coates
I look at modeling as something I'm doing for black people in general. — Naomi Campbell
Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of humiliation and oppression.… — W. E. B. Du Bois
In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts that much. And we didn't recognize marriages that much,… — Ike Turner
That kind of thing happens to black people every day in this country, and they don't receive that kind of sentence he did, which was… — Ishmael Reed
I have a no-die clause in every movie. The black people can't be dying all the time. — Queen Latifah
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
I think black people have to be in control of their own image because film is a powerful medium. We can't just sit back and… — Spike Lee
When you dishonor the the utter glory and majesty of black people, you lie. Your heart lies to you and you let it — Sinead O'Connor
We'll put an asterisk next to Barry Bonds' name, sure, as soon as we put one next to Babe Ruth's name. Getting to break records… — Daniel Tosh
Unfortunately, as I tell my white friends, we as black people, we're never going to be successful not because of you white people but because… — Charles Barkley
When you're black, you have to deal with so much crap in your life from other black people. It's a dirty, dark secret; I'm glad… — Charles Barkley
We treat racism in this country like it's a style that America went through. Like flared legs and lava lamps. Oh, that crazy thing we… — Chris Rock
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
I carry a knife now because I read in a white magazine that all black people carry knives. So I rushed out and bought me… — Redd Foxx

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