Black Quote by Henry Louis Gates

So, Mexico, Brazil, they wanted their national culture to be 'blackish' - really brown, a beautiful brown blend. And finally, I discovered that in…

— Henry Louis Gates

The Dominican Republic says 'We're black behind the ears.' And in Mexico, 'there's a black grandma in the closet.' They know, they've just been…

— Henry Louis Gates

The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have conserved their racial purity by a lack of affinity with washing, have seen…

— Che Guevara

“Arabs invaded northern Africa in the seventh century, sending black African slaves to Asia and Arab countries. In the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, which…

— Perry Stone

“Black Man’s Land is primarily Africa south of the Sahara Desert. Here dwell the bulk of all the 150,000,000 black men on earth. The…

— T. Lothrop Stoddard

The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have maintained their racial purity thanks to their lack of an affinity with bathing,…

— Che Guevara

The slaves were simply turned loose without any property. They were easily recognizable. They were black. They were suddenly free to go exploring.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I think that's something that we as black people in this country have been robbed of. I compare it to my brother's wife, who…

— Eric Reid

There was a great deal of inbreeding between the Indians and the slaves. Genetically speaking, black people are some part black, some part European.

— Alex Haley

“By 1870, roughly 284,000 blacks accounted for 12 percent of the population of sixteen Western states and territories. But Negroes actually show up as…

— Nicholas Johnson

Not one black man is prominent in Brazil. The Negroes there are still at the bottom.

— Malcolm X

The Afrocentric exploration of the black past only scratches the surface. A full examination of the ancestry of those who are referred to in…

— Ishmael Reed