Blacks Quotes

323 quotes by 249 authors

It is time for blacks to begin the shift from a wartime to a peacetime identity, from fighting for opportunity to the seizing of it. — Shelby Steele
Is slavery - owner, victim, profit, and domination - exclusive to the human race? Have blacks, Jews, women and children been the only victims of… — Gary Yourofsky
Why is it so difficult for many white folks to understand that racism is oppressive not because white folks have prejudicial feelings about blacks (they… — Bell Hooks
I donâ€™t believe in categories of any kind, and when you speak of problems between blacks and whites in the U.S.A. you are referring to… — Duke Ellington
In my experienceâ€”and I admit I didn't anticipate thisâ€”most blacks are delighted to have a 100-percent honest conversation with a white man about race. — Jared Taylor
When blacks are left entirely to their own devices, Western civilizationâ€”any kind of civilizationâ€”disappears. — Jared Taylor
We had started the tour hoping to make about 200 pounds each as the All Blacks (All Golds) had done the previous year. We got… — Dally Messenger
If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil. — Alexis de Tocqueville
You can go to the end of time, the last World Cup in the history of mankind, and the All-Blacks will be favourites for it. — Phil Kearns
If there weren't blacks, Jews and gays, there would no Oscars. Or anyone named Oscar, if you think about that. — Ellen DeGeneres
Our statute books gradually became laden with gross, stereotyped distinctions between the sexes and, indeed, throughout much of the 19th century the position of women… — William J. Brennan
I think the real understanding comes when we recognize our humanity in each other. That's not just between blacks and whites. That's between all religions… — Phylicia Rashad
There is a problem in America. An Irish or Polish American can write a story and it's an American story. When a Black American writes… — Gloria Naylor
I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries. — Arthur Ashe
Gays are beginning to realize what blacks learned long ago: Unless you are out here fighting for yourself then nobody else will help you. I… — Bayard Rustin
You know when Sharpton and I walked in, it was like... big commotion and everything. But everybody was very nice. And I couldn't get over… — Bill O'Reilly
Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature. — Phillip Noyce
We do not want to create a situation like that which exists in South Africa, where the whites are the owners and rulers, and the… — David Ben-Gurion
Seven out of 10 black faces you see on television are athletes. The black athlete carries the image of the black community. He carries the… — Arthur Ashe
The Afrocentric exploration of the black past only scratches the surface. A full examination of the ancestry of those who are referred to in the… — Ishmael Reed

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