Black Culture Quotes
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Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres (Black Culture Quotes)
Unlike some mainland black groups, Tasmanian Aborigines now have no traditional tribal culture left. It was taken from them with great violence and great rapidity. (Black Culture Quotes)
The gestures and the swagger and the attitude of black men is imitated everywhere in American culture, but people still find black men intolerable. (Black Culture Quotes)
It’s overshadowed, the art. We’re in a really argumentative, black-and-white-thinking culture right now. There’s not a lot of time to take things in. (Black Culture Quotes)
In the black culture, certain kids are given nicknames that they roll with forever; the nicknames outweigh their real names. I’m one of those scenarios. (Black Culture Quotes)
African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but there are just as many facets of us as there are other cultures. (Black Culture Quotes)
I will not perform in this city as long as the blatant targeting of black culture and minorities congregating is acceptable common practice, (Black Culture Quotes)
I’ve always loved black culture; I don’t know any other way to put it. Since I was a kid I loved music and early jazz, Sly and the Family Stone. (Black Culture Quotes)
Sometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn’t need a man. I think that’s wrong. I think we all need someone. (Black Culture Quotes)
When I was going to school, I just wanted to be like everybody else. I would pull at my hair to try and get it to lie straight. America was where I would consume and absorb black culture, buy Ultra Sheen and watch ‘Soul Train,’ but I still had that weird in-between thing. (Black Culture Quotes)
There was a manifesto in the late 60s/early 70s, and it basically laid out what ‘black art’ was and that it should embrace black history and black culture. There were all these rules - I was shocked, when I found it in a book, that it even existed, that it would demarcate these artists. (Black Culture Quotes)
The working-class black Southern Christian culture I come from still nurtures me, and I mean directly, daily. (Black Culture Quotes)
There’s been a lot of talk about black men and the presence and absence of black men in positions of power in American culture. (Black Culture Quotes)
In this culture, the phrase ‘black woman’ is not synonymous with ‘tender,’ or ‘gentle.’ It’s as if those words couldn’t possibly speak to the reality of black females. (Black Culture Quotes)
You need Black [people] sometimes to understand things about Black culture (Black Culture Quotes)
Young black men are considered dangerous, expendable, threatening and part of a culture of criminality. (Black Culture Quotes)
Black culture is very difficult to explain to people who don’t have any direct contact with it (Black Culture Quotes)
Films portraying successful black people getting married are great, but films that only show one aspect of our culture, bother me. (Black Culture Quotes)
In black comedic culture, there’s always been a thing about Man, I ain’t gotta wear a dress to be funny! But I’ve done it. (Black Culture Quotes)
I just feel in a lot of ways black people are so much looser and cooler. Just as a culture, it’s so much more real. (Black Culture Quotes)
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. (Black Culture Quotes)
Looking at me from the outside, it is not very obvious, I know half my family is black and I feel close to their culture and their color. (Black Culture Quotes)
I was a kid who liked art and theater and dance and music, but if you lived in Harlem, high culture was somewhere else, and it wasn’t black. (Black Culture Quotes)
The impact of black music and black art forms on American culture is really difficult to appreciate. (Black Culture Quotes)
I was in Paris last year, where there’s a great appreciation of many different aspects of African culture and of black culture. The music... the art... whatever... And I kind of went with that. (Black Culture Quotes)
I’m admitting that I don’t know that to be true, but it does sound pretty good. So a big part of my childhood was affecting black culture and black accents and black music and anything black I was into (Black Culture Quotes)
I majored in directing. However, I did spend some time at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, so I am somewhat well-versed in African Studies (Black Culture Quotes)
The black nation of Egypt is the only country that has a science named after its culture: Egyptology (Black Culture Quotes)
I used to joke for years that I was a black man. I adopted the black culture, the black race. I married a black woman, and I had black kids. I always considered myself a ‘brother.’ (Black Culture Quotes)
I think slavery was an awful, awful period in our history, but when I look at what’s become of black culture since emancipation, I think you have to admit, maybe the Confederacy was on to something (Black Culture Quotes)
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