Black People Quotes
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I hate the term ‘black’ because it doesn’t bring to life who we are as a people. The term ‘black’ has more negative synonyms than the term white. (Black People Quotes)
I don’t want to make black people’s lives better by giving them somebody else’s money; I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money. (Black People Quotes)
It is our experience that the nation doesn’t move around questions of genuine equality for the poor and for black people until it is confronted massively, dramatically in terms of direct action. (Black People Quotes)
People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS. (Black People Quotes)
I’m light skinned, and I used to lean on that because that’s something a lot of black people pride themselves on, and it’s weird. (Black People Quotes)
Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn’t white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans. (Black People Quotes)
The United States is not a nation of black and white people. Any fool can see that white people are not really white, and that black people are not black. (Black People Quotes)
I think one of my first jokes - in the black community, there’s people who have jokes about skin tone. People like, ‘You so black, you purple.’ ‘You so black, you gotta smile so we can see you at night.’ (Black People Quotes)
Historically, you’ve had really muddy, unforgiving, unintentional images of black people (Black People Quotes)
I’m not romanticizing black people, because we’ve got gangsters like everybody else (Black People Quotes)
At least they [people] showed the world we could elect a black president (Black People Quotes)
I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we’re complicated (Black People Quotes)
Is it possible that more black people hate the President than are actually alive? (Black People Quotes)
If you’re into social justice it’s hard not to be on black people’s side (Black People Quotes)
This is about black people selling out other black people (Black People Quotes)
I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people (Black People Quotes)
Black jurors sit on juries every day and convict black people every day (Black People Quotes)
Black people don’t even question things any more, they simply follow the lead (Black People Quotes)
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music (Black People Quotes)
If black people mistrust white people, they are mistrusting racism, and that is appropriate (Black People Quotes)
Terrorism is not new to black people (Black People Quotes)
People make jokes about how black people are the first ones to be killed off (Black People Quotes)
Black people are the most talented people in the world (Black People Quotes)
Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact (Black People Quotes)
I look at modeling as something I’m doing for black people in general (Black People Quotes)
There’s not too many rich black people in this world (Black People Quotes)
I am angry about the world’s conditions for black people (Black People Quotes)
Gold looks good on my skin, and gold looks good on black people, I think (Black People Quotes)
White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus (Black People Quotes)
Black Poetry is not for Black People...it is for everybody (Black People Quotes)