Best Young Black Quotes
61 Young Black quotes by 49 unique authors
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It's great to know that young black girls are seeing themselves on TV as leading ladies, and I'm part of that. It's just such an…
— Candice Patton
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If the principal smokers of cocaine were affluent older white men and the principal users of Viagra were young black men, using Viagra would land…
— Ethan Nadelmann
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I'm glad that young black people are successful with the music. I'm not a hater.
— DMX
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The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.
— Larry Elder
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If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now.…
— Spike Lee
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As a young black boy, it made me proud to see black leaders that did something amazing and made the world change.
— John Legend
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As a little girl growing up in Southside Jamaica Queens, if anyone would've told me I'd have my own perfume one day, and be able…
— Nicki Minaj
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I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to…
— Tyler Perry
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It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.
— Tupac Shakur
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It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all…
— Victoria Woodhull
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If I wanted to develop a scenario to destroy America, I would do what the Republicans are doing. Take the brightest and best young black…
— Andrew Young
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Body piercing and baggy clothes express identity among black youth, and not just beginning with hip-hop culture. Moreover, young black entrepreneurs like Sean 'P. Diddy'…
— Michael Eric Dyson
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I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a thinker when he had solitude to…
— Bell Hooks
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I would tell young people to start where they are with what they have and that the secret of a big success is starting with…
— John H. Johnson
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As N.Y.C. Public Advocate, I released a report that showed that stop-and-frisks of African Americans in 2012 were barely half as likely to yield a…
— Bill de Blasio
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The Black Panther Party was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college campuses.
— Bobby Seale
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The best way to protect young black, brown, men of color, women of color, is to actually stop profiling, stop the prejudice, and stop the…
— Hill Harper
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I used to think that I could be successful if I pretended to be a 23-year-old black woman. I wanted to find a young black…
— Edmund White
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Like myself, President Obama is the father of two daughters. He understands the obstacles that they face as women, but he also understands the emergency…
— Al Sharpton
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There is a genocide that is taking place among black men, in particular young black men, but it is not a genocide being perpetuated by…
— Niger Innis
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In the late 1990s, I wrote a book from the point of view of a young black woman who has barricaded herself in her college…
— Susan Shreve
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I always crave to see more stories about and by people of color, particularly new work by young black writers.
— Katori Hall
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I feel a responsibility to continue creating complex roles for black women, especially young black women.
— Katori Hall
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I dont care if you are TALL, short, thin, fat, rich , poor, old , young , black , or white ... If you respect…
— Rajat Dogra
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Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighbourhood.
— Coolio
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