Black Quote by John Lennon

Most black singers like to slow the word down and, and go directly to your heart. They're not interested in your ears, we just…

— Ben E. King

I heard black people sing and the emotion was overwhelming to me. The power of that with all the built in sorrow and joy…

— Steve Young

Why are black folks singing Amazing Grace which is a song about a white slaver's conversion?

— Dick Gregory

No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I…

— Charley Pride

[W]e have always resented the natural inclination of most white people to demand spirituals the moment it is known that a Negro is about…

— Countee Cullen

If a slave were to raise his voice to his master, he risked all manner of punishment. Yet what was possible in many circumstances…

— Henry Rollins

The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have…

— Nelson Mandela

I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for…

— Phil Robertson

Black people have always been more than our pain. The joy is so much a part of how we have survived and thrived.

— DeRay Mckesson

The boys think they can all be athletes, and the girls think they can all be singers. That's the way to fame and success.…

— Kristin Hunter

Black women in music are always expected to sing R&B or soul: we are always boxed in.

— Bree Runway

Black people's music is in a class by itself and always has been. There's nothing like it. The reason for that is because it…

— Toni Morrison