Black People Quotes

Where I grew up, it was all people who were black and Latino, people who look like me. Now I live in a neighborhood where very, very few people look like me.

People think that everyone wears black in France; in fact they all wear grey.

The gestures and the swagger and the attitude of black men is imitated everywhere in American culture, but people still find black men intolerable.

See, Barack been, um, talking down to black people on this faith-based... I want to cut his nuts off. Barack, he's talking down to black people.

Vaclav Havel didn't want to ride around in big black cars. And he had his own car with a little red heart on it. And he loved to go out and talk to the people.

It is frustrating having to walk through America having to bob and weave people's impressions of me because they see a tall, black guy walking down the street. That is frustrating.

During the 19th-century struggle for womens rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.

I'm accountable - this sounds emo - to black American writing, Southern writing, Southern black American writing, American writing and my people. That's kind of what keeps me accountable.

There are a good number of people creating black metal and black metal inspired music in the northwest. Much of this music is radically noncommercial and exists only on a very local, private level.

I've managed to create intimacy with people I know, and people that I don't know. The longer things stay inside of us, the more we think they are black or tainted, but they're really not.

[ Negro leaders] never let the white man know exactly what black people are thinking.

I write because I am a Black woman, listening attentively to her people.

The line between the white-science and the black-science is very narrow. You can open roads or you can kill people by the same dynamite!

I think the two issues, racism and chauvinism, are linked. Look at how much weaker was support for U.S. actions in Iraq among black people.

Now that's hard for many people to believe, given that the media image of a drug dealer is a black kid standing on the street corner with his pants sagging down.

We black people, as a whole, are at war we'll say with the white power structure. Not physically, but we have definite protests to win the battle.

Rs 6500 crore disclosed under compliance window of black money & foreign assets law. People fear the law that has now been created. Stringent provisions will not be diluted despite pressures.

At least they [people] showed the world we could elect a black president.

There's a million white people better qualified than a black man to be president of America.

A body would think that your heart was as black as your face. People thinks now that sweeps is black all through instead of blackall over.

I actually think it's going to be the intriguing plot [ in Black Snake Moan] point that brings people into the film.

I've been blessed with the opportunity to express the views of black people who otherwise don't have access to power and the media. I have to take advantage of that while I'm still bankable.

[Her] greatest fear, which was so huge and so black that it was of phobic proportions, was that people would laugh at her feelings.

When you look at the Lady Gagas of the world, or the Jay-Zs, or the Black Eyed Peas, these are people who have one album release and it's a worldwide one.

We want to make sure people know deeply about the trans community and deeply about Black Lives Matter so that people can act in solidarity.

People tend to believe that I want to make soul music, which is not entirely untrue but, really, I want to be like the black Tom Waits - I don't want to make one kind of sound.

Well, you need to have at least one black friend, otherwise people think you're racist

Oh Maker, what did they really say about your black creation? I think you made a beautiful work of art on a canvass of rebellion. Hey, Maker! We are still selling out!

Black bodies have become ornamental, haven't they?

Growing up I sometimes imagined that for Christ's return perhaps He would appear as 'Black Jesus' to white people and 'White Jesus' to black people just to screw with the racists.

In the future, as in the present, as in the past, black people will build many new worlds.This is true. I will make it so. And you will help me.

Divided we are as people but if we stand together and fight we as a race will unite.

Sentiments that glorify humanity know no racial distinction.

Call up the ever-pure, the effulgent and the ever-radiant character of true humanism in yourself and in others, and no racism shall have the power to thrive in such society even for a few seconds.

It is character that should be the sole measure of judgement in the society of thinking humanity, and nothing short of that would do.

In the biological sense, race does not exist.

If origin defines race, then we are all Africans – we are all black.

I am a descendent of a whole bunch of Black folk who couldn't be broken.

I am an educated black woman in a time when educated black people will be called upon to risk everything for the rights of black people everywhere.

It’s important that young people know about the struggles we faced to get to the point we are today. Only then will they appreciate the hard-won freedom of blacks in this country.

I've always looked at America like a foster mother doing it only for the check. At any minute, I just knew she'd be ready to give up on me.

Just like "All American" means "White, " "All Lives" means "White.

Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting alone was the big aim, but after that I decided everybody being colorless together was a better plan.

America's put American Black Folks in such a bad position, empty plates and glasses now get us full.

They made you an Amendment and convinced you it meant 'American.

I consider myself an American African because we did not come by choice.

Black people are either threats or entertainment.

When you're marginalized, there are no "them people, " if we're all on the outskirts of the same margin.

White supremacy is a black person telling the people of Baltimore to chill out and try peace, thinking they came up with that thought all on their own.

My heart isn't big enough to care for the oppressors.