Black People Quotes

I don't like the term 'black people', I find it demeaning to those of us that actually qualify as 'people'.

We wanted black power to be all things to all people.

The Black church is extremely important in Black America. I think most Americans themselves believe in a divine power, in a god, and I'm sure that that number increases with Black people.

For black women our sense of ourselves is not always consistent with the way other people see us.

In black America there's such a thing as passing, the black people who are light skinned and they will pass for white.

No one should advocate any peaceful suffering to black people, unless the black - white man is going to practice the same kind of peaceful suffering.

The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.

I heard a white writer say, 'Oh, I'd never put black people in my writing, I'm afraid I would offend someone by doing it wrong.' I can't bear that!

Gangsta rap was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. Gangsta rap didnt exist.

I personally feel like black people in America have contributed so much for so long, and haven't always gotten credit for it.

I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.

I learned that if you bring black people together, you bring them together with a song. To this day, I don't understand how people think they can bring anybody together without a song.

There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.

My town was all-white and shut down Section 8 housing because they didn't want black people to move into the town. And I thought that was wrong - duh.

Our problem is that we don't have enough people in America, including black people, who are progressive and willing to sacrifice their popularity in order to tell the truth.

I believe that when it comes to major foreign policy issues, many prefer to have black people seen and not heard.

I think that Hollywood is content with condescending to Black people, patronizing them, feeling sorry for us, and I think we're happy to take the pat on the head as a people and take whatever awards.

We can see that the complexity we witness inside the African-American community today has always been there. Black people were just as noble and just as ignoble as anybody else.

If you think black people have a motivation problem, open up a Wal-Mart and advertise a thousand jobs. Watch 5,000 people show up.

Black people invented jazz. But this story [in La La Land] wasn't ever claiming to be that. It's just a story about two people from one writer's point of view.

The abortion industry kills as many Black people every four days as the Klan killed in 150 years.

For me, as a child, I certainly thought that there were more black people in the world than white people.

What Martin Luther King is doing is disarming the black people of America of their God-given right and of their natural right.

The only way the two can have equal job opportunities is if black people have factories as, as well as white people have factories.

The Government is responsible for what is happening to black people in America.

I think white people like to tell Asian people how they should feel about race because they're too scared to tell black people.

Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it.

Black people don't talk about diabetes that much. I never knew anything. I thought everyone had an uncle with a leg cut off!

I think my work shows that I love women. I understand where these types of criticisms are coming from because black people have been so dogged out in the media, they're just extra sensitive.

Lots of white people think black people are stupid. They are stupid themselves for thinking so, but regulation will not make them smarter.

In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist.

I heard black people sing and the emotion was overwhelming to me. The power of that with all the built in sorrow and joy was just overwhelming to me as a little kid. It was the real deal.

Why would you create a movie for black people if you don't understand the history and perspective of the people you are doing it for? You need historical perspective to make sound decisions.

Anti-Catholicism is the last respectable prejudice. You can't hate black people anymore, of course, and you can't hate homosexuals anymore, but you can hate all the Catholics you want.

A cynic had defined aid as simply the system by which poor white people in rich countries gave money to rich black people in poor countries to put into Swiss bank accounts.

[Paris] is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin.

I don't think a white person can write accurately and convincingly about what black people experience of oppression.

The alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker. This amused her; she had noted in her journal: "booze affects material as it does people.

I feel like decades ago it was either youre black, white, Asian or Hispanic, or whatever, but today we see more of an acceptance for people with multi-nationalities.

I get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other.

When we work all over the planet, it's mostly poor and black and brown and young people, because that's mostly what the world [environmentalism] is.

I've been thinking about where I want to take my live show. I want everything in it to be pink, gold, and black. I don't want people to feel any other colors, like brown or yellow.

We can never know... But maybe it's because no black actors merited being nominated.Why put people into categories?

The subset of our population that has not benefited from the advancement of medication is black and brown people.

Barry Bonds is outspoken. I think that the people of Pittsburgh felt, it's a syndrome of you've got to apologize for being successful if you're successful (as well as) black and outspoken.

Adolescents tend to be passionate people, and passion is no less real because it is directed toward a hot-rod, a commercialized popular singer, or the leader of a black-jacketed gang.

I've never understood people who say they're not a practicing Jew. You never hear a black guy say he's not a practicing African-American. What does it even mean?

I'm trying to give people an idea of what black looks like and what white looks like before I introduce them to gray.

Most people I know of that mix have a real ability to be in a room with anyone, black or white.

It seemed impossible that there could be people in the world who still desired food, who laughed, who neither knew nor cared that Sirius Black was gone forever.