Blacks Quotes
323 quotes by 249 authors
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On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and…
— Hank Aaron
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So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made to…
— Steven Biko
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What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into…
— Gwendolyn Brooks
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My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first blacks in my town to…
— John Henrik Clarke
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Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It's very clear.
— Maya Angelou
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We need to be protecting American citizens who are here, out of work, and hurting today-minorities, Blacks and Whites and all colors and races that…
— Jeff Sessions
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The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to grow together, in…
— Theodore Hesburgh
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The myth of integration as propounded under the banner of the liberal ideology must be cracked because it makes people believe that something is being…
— Steven Biko
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I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns and women join the unqualified men in running our government.
— Frances Farenthold
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Let Southern oppressors tremble-let their secret abettors tremble-let their Northern apologists tremble-let all the enemies of the persecuted blacks tremble.
— William Lloyd Garrison
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When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.
— Jesse Jackson
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All token Blacks have the same experience. I have been pointed at as a solution to things that have not yet begun to be solved,…
— Leontyne Price
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Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job,…
— Whitney M. Young
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We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit. We do not write about…
— Jonathan Kozol
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We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted colors: great stretches…
— Mark Twain
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You know, I'm really busted up over this and I'm very, very sorry to those people in the audience, the blacks, the Hispanics, whites -…
— Michael Richards
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When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still…
— Jonathan Lethem
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Do you have blacks, too?
— George W. Bush
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In the past, yes, I have made sweeping indictments of all white people. I never will be guilty of that again - as I know…
— Malcolm X
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People are threatened by me. Rich white, rich blacks, it doesn't matter.
— Dennis Rodman
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