Black People Quotes

Whose the spiritual people pon earth. The Black people. Dem a deal wit God. And God no let dem down.

If you're into social justice it's hard not to be on black people's side.

A recent poll shows that a majority of blacks, whites, Asians and Hispanics do not think the Census should be classifying people as black, white, Asian and Hispanic.

The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.

For black people, being around white people is sometimes like taking care of babies you don't like, babies who throw up on you again and again, but whom you cannot punish, because they're babies.

You can have a film and have 200 white people working on it, and nobody finds anything wrong with that. But if you insist on having a black crew, all of a sudden there's something wrong.

Terrorism is not new to black people.

George W. Bush doesn't care about black people.

He [Cassius Clay] became a Black Muslim, which is a pseudo-religion for unbright neurotics who feel the need to hate all white people.

When it comes to racism, you hear people say, "I don't care if people are white, black, purple or green." Hold on, now, purple or green? Come on now, you gotta draw the line somewhere.

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 self hate.

With black people, there are 50 Hitlers over the course of history.

Black people lived right by the railroad tracks and the train would shake their houses at night. I would hear it as a boy and I thought: I'm gonna make a song that sounds like that.

I would suggest is that in the latter 1990s it is extremely important to look at the predicament of black people within the context of the globalization of capital.

You know why Guns n' Roses aren't a good band? Because no black people listen to them.

Did you see the 2000 Republican Presidential Convention? The last time the Republicans had that many Black people on a stage, they were selling them!

I think that's the core of black aesthetics: the ability to improvise. That is what has enabled our [black people's] survival.

They say African Americans. I say black people. I've only been to Africa once. I've been in America all my life!

We are here to work side-by-side with this "black" man in trying to bring liberation to all our people!

Niggerization is the result of oppression -- and it doesn't just apply to the black people. Old people, poor people, and students can also get niggerized.

Addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch.

Tupac the son of the Black Panther, and Tupac the rider. Those are the two people inside of me. I was raised off those ideals.

To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.

The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.

Black people drink lots of beer. However, you won't see us skiing down a mountain for one, or see us diving for Frisbees on concrete for one.

When you're black, you have to deal with so much crap in your life from other black people. It's a dirty, dark secret; I'm glad it's coming out.

I feel like I come from a smaller off shoot of black people because I am mixed. People say I’m African American but that doesn’t include the other half of me.

Thoughtful white people know they are inferior to black people.

Brilliant lecturers shouldn't be wasted in lecture rooms: they should appear onTV. We need black market universities, in which people just help each other, and which don't leave out the poor.

In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.

People say all lives matter. And that's true, but it's just black people that are getting shot in the back running or choked to death for having cigarettes or playing their music too loud.

We’ve gone through the names—Negro, African American, African, Black. For me that’s an indication of a people still trying to find their identity. Who determines what is black?

When I say the n-word, black people are clear that I'm on their side. And it's not disingenuous - I am on black people's side, clearly.

The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.

Why can't we have fine black restaurants with fine service by black people who always gave good service? Because we thought that is demeaning and it's not, it's a good living.

I have the utmost respect and aloha for black people who have already suffered so much due to racial discrimination and acts of hatred.

Sometimes it seems as if I have spent the first half of my life refusing to let white people define me and the second half refusing to let black people define me.

Black people playing tennis, next white people will be tap dancing!

Racial oppression of black people in America has done what neither class oppression or sexual oppression, with all their perniciousness, has ever done: destroyed an entire people and their culture.

I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we're complicated.

I write from a people's point of view. I love people because I understand them. I understand an enemy, I understand a friend, I understand grey areas, and I understand black areas.

If black people mistrust white people, they are mistrusting racism, and that is appropriate.

If you want to appeal to everyone, you can't do a world tour and expect black people to show up at every date - when you're in Australia, when you're in Dubai, when you're in Indonesia.

Eddie [Murphy] is an icon. He's one of the reason why I started doing comedy in the beginning. He opened a lot of doors for black people.

Black child poverty is higher. As I write in the epilogue, "Yes we can. No he didn't. President [Barack] Obama didn't push black people backward, but he missed the opportunity to move us forward."

Poor white people and poor black people just don't know how much they have in common. Rich people don't give a damn about either group.

I don't want the Obama era to be more about symbolism than substance when it comes to black people. I love him, but I love black people even more.

At the KFC there's, lot of black people there innit *laughs*

The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it.

Fighting by itself doesn't interest me anymore. I want to help people, the black people and I need any kind of media to spread my thought: God, charity, peace.