Black Person Quotes

Black Person Quote of the day

I had explained that a woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan

I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people.

So, to say Barack Obama is progress is saying that he's the first black person that is qualified to be president. That's not black progress. That's white progress.

Blacks don't square dance. If you see a black person square dancing, it is definitely the seventh sign.

The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them.

Why does every black person in the movies have to play a servant? How about a black person walking up the steps of a courthouse carrying a briefcase?

When a black person has no electricity, no water, they call it the ghetto. When white people have no electricity and no water, they call it camping.

Trying to find my flaws is like trying to find a black person at one of our concerts

I didn't realize, when I decided to be a comic, that a black person had never been allowed to stand flat-footed in America and talk to white folks. It never happened before.

As a black person I am no stranger to prejudice. But the truth is that in the political world I have been far more often discriminated against because I am a woman than because I am black.

I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person.

Speaking as a black person, welfare is the worst thing that's ever happened to us.

I'm not saying that President Obama should be exempt from criticism, nor do I believe it is some act of racial treason for a black person to hold our president accountable for his actions.

But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society.

Al Gore's Negro tolerance level has never been too high. I've never known him to have more than one black person around him at any given time.

It was unlikely that anyone had ever heard a black person sing country music.

Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.

The most dangerous thing in American society is a self-respecting and self-loving black person, because they're on the road to freedom and that means they're gonna run up against the powers that be.

A black Christian is like a black person with no memory.

NHPrimary Trivia: The Republican candidates have not spoken to a black person since Herman Cain dropped out.

Anything I have ever learned of any consequence, I have learned from Black people. I have never been bored by any Black person, ever.

It's odd to see a black person painting his nails in Miami, especially in the hip-hop community.

I think if you are a black person or an Hispanic person, you are not as fond of Rudolph Giuliani as you are if you happen to be a white person. Because he has trampled on people's civil rights.

No poor, rural, weak, or black person should ever again have to bear the additional burden of being deprived of the opportunity for an education, a job, or simple justice.

On the one hand, there is no reason that a black person needs to live a portion of his or her life being concerned about the people of color around him. On the other hand, if you don't you're crazy.

I consider myself a human being, a Christian, a father, a husband, so many things, before being a black person.

Any successful black person will have to face suspicion within his or her own community about his or her loyalty to other blacks.

I don't think I'm really so unique. If every black person looked at their life they would quickly discover that they have been influenced by every type of music prevalent in America.

No black person married to a white person can speak for me!

I think everybody has the ability to fall in love with a man or with a woman or a white person or a black person or a Jewish person or a Protestant person or whatever.

I don't trust white critics' judgment about most things that deal with black life, particularly when a black person is the creator.

I've been in situations where I was 'black boy white,' or 'white boy black.' People didn't know, "Is he the whitest black person in the world or is he the blackest white person in the world?"

I think, as a white person, I do not want to speak for a black person.

As black folks we're always sensitive. As a black person it's always racial.

It's very funny, American society: White culture can do all sorts of things and get away with it, but the minute a black person does it, it's interpreted in some way.

I love that as a black person I've experienced not being a minority. I think that's helped me to combat the minority mentality people can have here, which can stop them scaling the heights.

Utah could elect its first black Republican woman to Congress. In other words, Utah finally got one black person and the first thing they want to do is send her to Washington.

Most of the things that are asked of me as a representative black person, would suggest never are we equal Americans.

Black Realism or cosmopolitan black politician is a code word to say this is a black person that is not tied to a civil rights/black power traditional black politics.