Black Person Quotes
59 quotes by 52 authors
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The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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No poor, rural, weak, or black person should ever again have to bear the additional burden of being deprived of the opportunity for an education,…
— Jimmy Carter
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How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? . . . Twelve white men say a…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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Why does every black person in the movies have to play a servant? How about a black person walking up the steps of a courthouse…
— Myrna Loy
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Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its…
— Pam Grier
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Trying to find my flaws is like trying to find a black person at one of our concerts
— Thom Yorke
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I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the…
— Phil Robertson
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I'm with the blacks, because we’re white trash. We’re going across the field … They’re singing and happy. I never heard one of them, one…
— Phil Robertson
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I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person,
— Phil Robertson
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...people will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype. They want to be hip, want always to be in on the…
— Miles Davis
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Al Gore's Negro tolerance level has never been too high. I've never known him to have more than one black person around him at any…
— Cynthia McKinney
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When a black person has no electricity, no water, they call it the ghetto. When white people have no electricity and no water, they call…
— Carlos Mencia
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As a black person in America, I am twice as likely as a white person to live in an area where air pollution poses the…
— Majora Carter
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NHPrimary Trivia: The Republican candidates have not spoken to a black person since Herman Cain dropped out.
— Andy Borowitz
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So, to say Barack Obama is progress is saying that he's the first black person that is qualified to be president. That's not black progress.…
— Chris Rock
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A black Christian is like a black person with no memory.
— Chris Rock
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They always try to make it like jocks discriminate against gay people. I've been a big proponent of gay marriage for a long time, because…
— Charles Barkley
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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
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I love that as a black person I've experienced not being a minority. I think that's helped me to combat the minority mentality people can…
— David Oyelowo
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Certainly I feel like I'm the tip of the arrow at times because certainly the national media wants to talk about the fact that I'm…
— Tim Scott
Who Wrote These Black Person Quotes
52 authors contributed a total of 59 Black Person Quotes, led by these top contributors: