Black people Quote by Matthew Quick

Only blacks can play the race card, apparently; only they think in racial terms, at least to hear white America tell it.

— Tim Wise

“I named you Fauna because I loved Robinson Jeffers’ poem about Flora and Fauna. I asked that they keep that name. I wanted only…

— Fauna Hodel

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

— Anonymous

“You speak as if God was white and Southern! As if we somehow owned his image. You speak like a fool. The Negro is…

— Sue Monk Kidd

In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character,…

— Samuel George Morton

It was not my aim to paint about the Negro in America in terms of propaganda. It is to depict the life of my…

— Romare Bearden

Any negro who occupies a position that was given to him by the white man, if you analyze his function, his function never enables…

— Malcolm X

“In the beginning—and neither can this be overstated—a Negro just cannot believe that white people are treating him as they do; he does not…

— James Baldwin

“...internalized the Negro theorem of needing to be twice as good to get half as far.”

— Margot Lee Shetterly

Black people are not often considered mainstream.

— Lamman Rucker

Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of…

— Nate Parker

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