Best Black People Proverbs

388 Black People quotes by 238 unique authors

Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people. — Andrew Young
The majority of Latin actresses in Hollywood were always playing either spitfires or maids. Now here is a woman who comes in and does leads… — Rosie Perez
Gold looks good on my skin, and gold looks good on black people, I think. — Theophilus London
The violence that we had in the 60's was limited. The next time it will be unlimited because the violence in the 60's was a… — Robert F. Williams
Black people loving and losing is something we don’t see enough of. We’re always in these heightened situations like something big is happening, something funny… — Ava DuVernay
I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts. — Trisha Goddard
See, Barack been, um, talking down to black people on this faith-based... I want to cut his nuts off. Barack, he's talking down to black… — Jesse Jackson
I remember when I had my show [The Chris Rock Show on HBO], I used to run my show. It was so hard to get… — Scott Raab
I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no… — Marcus Garvey
Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad! — Marcus Garvey
Look to Africa, for there a king will be crowned. — Marcus Garvey
In Ethiopia, the black people became Christians 1700 years ago, hundreds of years before Northern Europe turned to Christianity... And here, most of the saints… — Henry Louis Gates
I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was… — Henry Louis Gates
Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be… — Henry Louis Gates
Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried. — Henry Louis Gates
If black people mistrust white people, they are mistrusting racism, and that is appropriate. — Jasmine Guy
I'm glad that young black people are successful with the music. I'm not a hater. — DMX
In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to… — Angela Davis
Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers… — Angela Davis
That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color being thrown into… — Angela Davis
What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who… — Angela Davis
Reckless capitalism kills black people. — Mos Def
It's possible and available to any artist to be himself or herself on their own terms, to be accepted and embraced by black people. You… — Mos Def
If women were in charge of everything, there would be women tyrants. If black people were in charge, there would be black tyrants. If Hispanics… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the… — Bell Hooks

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