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Black People Quotes by Henry Louis Gates
- 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…
- It's no surprise that White people say things when they are together about Black people.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.
More Black People Quotes
- It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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.… — 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… — Stokely Carmichael