Black people Quote by Matthew Quick Download Open image ““Only black people can use controversial racial terms such as “Negro.”” — Matthew Quick ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Black people
“Throughout this book I will use the terms African-American, black, and Negro interchangeably. There is rarely a logic to it, so please try not… — Baratunde R. Thurston Copy Share Image
Stop using the word 'Negro.' The word is a misnomer from every point of view. It does not represent a country or anything else… — Mary Church Terrell Copy Share Image
I don't use the term "black" very often. I use the term African-American more than I use "black". — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
“African-Americans are just as likely to harbor racist attitudes as white people.” — Ben Carson Copy Share Image
Blackness is not simply a reactionary title or identity; that is indeed the "negative" way of characterizing African American identity. — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“To be fair, I hate the N-word and avoid using it because the N-word has always been a pejorative, a word designed to remind… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“The term 'black' was given a rebirth by the black youth revolt. As reborn, it does not refer to the particular color of any… — Chancellor Williams Copy Share Image
“The word "Racist" is a slanderous term, tactically used by anti-White liberals to vilify racially aware White people..” — Hewitt E. Moore Copy Share Image
The only person on the planet saying derogatory things about his woman is the black man. — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
I will not sit in a room with black people when the N word is used. I know it was meant to belittle a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I grew up in a blue-collar neighborhood and was raised by a man who did not emote, ever... I always cry at movies, and… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
Maybe my movie isn't over, I say, because sometimes moviemakers trick the audience with a false bad ending, and just when you think the… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
“Like maybe he really, truly believes I'm worth listening to, worth saving.” — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
You need to make time for family no matter what happens in your life. — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
“the only way you could meet my crazy was by doing something crazy for yourself” — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
When I travel round the country, people can't place my accent; if there's someone in the audience, they'll be like, 'You're from Philadelphia', but… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
“Empiezo a comprender que tenemos una clase de amistad en la que no se necesitan muchas palabras.” — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
When she needed help most, she was abandoned--and only when she offered help to others was she beloved. — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“In any case, white people, who had robbed black people of their liberty and who profited by this theft every hour that they lived,… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
We have to build our own power. We have to win every single political office we can, where we have a majority of black… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
Hollywood is so fixated on keeping it that way because it's generating the buzz, but that representation isn't right. I definitely feel like it's… — John Boyega Copy Share Image
Black Privilege is a concrete motive that black people benefit from, such as racism but racism on whites. Black people don't know it but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Acknowledging that my skin was, in fact, Cocoa as it is, would have destroyed their narrative about who I really was. Therefore they had… — Mitta Xinindlu Copy Share Image
Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Adam Clayton Powell's entire political career has to be looked at in the entire context of the American history and the history of, and… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
What would America be like if we loved black people as much as we loved black culture? — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
“Any ministry to black people which is not designed to effect their empowerment is designed to perpetuate their enslavement.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All black people who are even minimally conscious, black people who have ever experienced Europe's technological power crusading in the vanguard of a civilizing… — Lewis Nkosi Copy Share Image
Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind… — Ed Smith Copy Share Image
