Black People Quotes

The world has white people and black people in it. Even in Harlem.

I'm not romanticizing black people, because we've got gangsters like everybody else.

These people didn't know anything about black people, so the only thing they could imagine was the worst thing.

It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you're associating with black people.

I personally don't enjoy films that bring black people down. I find that a majority of the films that black people are starred in nowadays, are ones focused on gang violence or dancing.

There's no place like New York to engage so many wonderful people who care about black people.

I believe that Christianity trains black people, especially black women, to think like slaves, and I believe that Islam is mainly fueled by its hatred for women.

Black people don't know what white people are talking about when they talk about a Sister Souljah moment. I tell them it's the moment you meet a proud, beautiful black woman you can never forget.

If you're black, you can't just be ordinary. All successful black people are extraordinary.

Saying women aren't funny is now like saying Asians can't drive or saying black people have bad credit. It's just really, like, so obsolete.

With all the trouble black people have, they try to forget on weekends. You've got to be good to make them laugh.

You got black people in an all-white country and they don't know nothing about themselves.

In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.

I don't care who the president is - it isn't just all about who's black or who's white or who's Republican or Democrat, it's about who is for the betterment of people, period.

I think I look better in darker clothes. And maybe the fact that I wear black so much makes me more aware of putting people at ease.

I would think black people think everything is about race. They are the ones who are on the outside of the game. They are the ones who face it every day.

I don't know if it's really important, or intelligent even, when people say to me I'm a white Spike Lee, because they said to Spike Lee you're a black Woody Allen.

There is a list of things Im not allowed to discuss at the dinner table! I am extraordinarily passionate about the Black Death, which is not something most people are into.

You can't imagine hip-hop without the Black Panthers. Today, hopefully, the movement can be an inspiration to people. These were people who made mistakes but they were trying to change things.

Just as important I believe, is Black America can look back at the show and say, "Wow, I think I now understand why a lot of white people were appalled at the acquittal of O.J. Simpson."

I am angry about the world's conditions for black people.

But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people.

They don't let many black people in the governor's mansion in Alabama, unless they're cleaning.

You see, in recent history, the Democrat party has created the illusion that their agenda and their policies are what's best for black people.

Even if its a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 whites.

To me, entertainment is really the new plantation. It's the new sugar, the new cotton, that black people work for somebody else to be richer than them.

I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.

Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?

I marvel at the many ways we, as black people, bend but do not break.

I love what the church offers to us as a culture - black people in particular. We would be nowhere without the black church.

People make jokes about how black people are the first ones to be killed off.

I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not me, but black people - that were uncomfortable.

Oh sure, I have a few black people in my family tree. They're probably still hanging there.

What mostly prevents black people from voting is that drug laws send them to prison, and then they can't vote.

I was guided by Allah (God) to give a yardstick to the voting public, particularly Black people as to what will set that candidate apart from others.

The black people in this country are taught that their religion and the best religion is the religion of Islam, and when one accepts the religion of Islam, he's known as a Muslim.

The Holocaust would never have happened if black people lived in Germany in the 1930s and 40s … well, it wouldn't have happened to Jews.

I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the "black people's CNN." Well now, hip-hop is more like Fox News. It's biased, and highly suspect.

You don't have a baby based on that publicity madness. People don't live like that. Especially black people who were raised in families with morals and standards and integrity.

It is important for us to remember that black people have been patriotic and have fought for that American dream in every American war.

I've always taken pride to be the white guy that can talk to the black people, that can refer to them truly as a brother from a different mother.

What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have the audacity to be asking black people [why] they hate him?

I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.

I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.

It's a significant question: should black people only adopt black children, and white people white children?

Blaxploitation films were black films targeting black people. They were films made to appeal to a culture in a way that was supposed to be unfiltered.

The easy answer is to say that it's a part for black people to see black heroes, but to me it's important to young Mexican kids to see a black hero.

It isn't that black people are protected in America by the left; it's that black liberals are protected just as female liberals are protected, not conservatives.

Historically, you've had really muddy, unforgiving, unintentional images of black people.

The poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X.