Black Quote by John Barnes

People have been taught not just to have a negative perception of black people, but to have a belief in the superiority of white…

— John Barnes

I think there's an enormous value to being negative. The world we live in today, negativity is not permitted.

— Godfrey Reggio

Being black has been put in such a negative light. For such a long time, being black has been criminalized, but being black is…

— Zozibini Tunzi

There's no reason in the world why black [people] should not be regarded as an attribute that is not degrading but is positive. There's…

— John Hope Franklin

We only put the negative black people on television. We don't put the good, hard-working black people.

— Charles Barkley

Black culture is a fight. We want to hold on to what we are, but sometimes the things that we are can be totally…

— Donald Glover

In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?

— Jamie Foxx

Black employers are just as negative as the white employers concerning inner-city workers.

— William Julius Wilson

It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.

— Flip Wilson

“individualizing White negativity and generalizing Black negativity.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

Blackness is not simply a reactionary title or identity; that is indeed the "negative" way of characterizing African American identity.

— Michael Eric Dyson

I'm not really a negative thinker.

— Bastian Schweinsteiger