Best Black People Wisdom

388 Black People quotes by 238 unique authors

It was illegal for black people and white people to play checkers together in Birmingham. And there were even black and white Bibles to swear… — Isabel Wilkerson
Racism is when you have laws set up, systematically put in a way to keep people from advancing, to stop the advancement of a people.… — Spike Lee
Liberals want to set up social welfare committees to help whites and West Indians love each other in Birmingham. But all such efforts are doomed… — Lewis Nkosi
All black people who are even minimally conscious, black people who have ever experienced Europe's technological power crusading in the vanguard of a civilizing mission,… — Lewis Nkosi
It's no surprise that White people say things when they are together about Black people. — Henry Louis Gates
One principle I've been fighting for that doesn't endear me to a lot of people is that black people can be just as complicated and… — Henry Louis Gates
I learned that if you bring black people together, you bring them together with a song. To this day, I don't understand how people think… — Bernice Johnson Reagon
In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't… — Stephen L. Carter
There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was… — Carl Bernstein
There's not too many rich black people in this world. — Barry Bonds
I am angry about the world's conditions for black people. — Brenda Fassie
Saying women aren't funny is now like saying Asians can't drive or saying black people have bad credit. It's just really, like, so obsolete. — Whitney Cummings
Everything about us black people is complicated, us being here, being a minority, being a woman, all those things are complicated. — Nicole Beharie
It's a significant question: should black people only adopt black children, and white people white children? — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
I have the utmost respect and 'aloha' for black people - who have already suffered so much due to racial discrimination and acts of hatred. — Duane Chapman
I've always taken pride to be the white guy that can talk to the black people, that can refer to them truly as a brother… — Duane Chapman
Black jurors sit on juries every day and convict black people every day. — Johnnie Cochran
Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose some of their… — Katherine Dunham
Nothing is out of our realm, because it has nothing to do with color. As black people, we're not different from anyone else, other than… — Marla Gibbs
Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa. — Bobby Fischer
I was told by the general manager that a white player had received a higher raise than me. Because white people required more money to… — Curt Flood
I wrote two poems about the '81 uprisings: 'Di Great Insohreckshan' and 'Mekin Histri.' I wrote those two poems from the perspective of those who… — Linton Kwesi Johnson
White people's fear of Black people with guns will never cease to amaze me. Probably it's because they think about what they would do were… — Assata Shakur
For me, as a child, I certainly thought that there were more black people in the world than white people. — Keegan-Michael Key
I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than… — Peter Matthiessen

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