Blacks Quotes

323 quotes by 233 authors

The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard… — Henry Louis Gates
I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black… — Bessie Coleman
Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend! — Lauryn Hill
I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read… — Bell Hooks
The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to… — George Jackson
Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf. — Jesse Jackson
Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk. — Jesse Jackson
On the political front, of course it's a zero-sum game. If it's all white males holding positions, you bring 10 women in, then it's, 'Women… — Jesse Jackson
We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him. We gave him his first love, 96… — Jesse Jackson
Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that… — Thurgood Marshall
A new poll shows that Senator Kerry's support in the South is strongest amongst blacks. Kerry's appeal to Southern blacks is obvious. He is a… — Dennis Miller
Democrats in Louisville were led by Courier-Journal editor Henry Watterson and were implacably opposed to blacks voting. — Rand Paul
School shootings were invented by blacks... and stolen by the white man. — Chris Rock
You know, I love all kinds of activism. I certainly think blacks deserve to have something whether it is affirmative action or an opportunity that… — Russell Simmons
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent… — Thomas Sowell
There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the… — Thomas Sowell
We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by… — Barbra Streisand
Even as someone who's labeled a conservative - I'm a Republican I'm black, I'm heading up this organization in the Reagan administration - I can… — Clarence Thomas
When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. It's the people who are… — Clarence Thomas
Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride. — David Foster Wallace

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