Black Pride Quotes
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I’m a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity (Black Pride Quotes)
I want to make it clear that the black race did not come to the United States culturally empty-handed. The role and importance of ethnic history is in how well it teaches a people to use their own talents, take pride in their own history and love their own memories (Black Pride Quotes)
People look at black pride in America and sport’s impact on it. In the major cities it took off the first time Jackie Robinson stole home. In the deep South, it started with Eddie Robinson, who took a small college in northern Louisiana with little or no funds and sent the first black to the pros and made everyone look at him and Grambling (Black Pride Quotes)
[H]umans tend to start the process of change by acknowledging themselves thus blacks asserted black pride and black is beautiful; women declared I am woman, I am strong:;; men are saying I am man, I am okay. After a quarter of a century of male bashing, that’s not a bad start (Black Pride Quotes)
The rise of African nations concurrent with the spread of the Nation of Islam and the civil rights movement gave black America a burst of pride over and above anything they had had since the decline of the movement of Marcus Garvey. (Black Pride Quotes)
When I was a teenager, black pride became newly popular again. Suddenly a lot of black people were wearing the fake kente cloth and red black and green and Bob Marley. That was sort of my window into finding my own identity as a black person. (Black Pride Quotes)
The Nation of Islam’s main focus was teaching black pride and self-awareness. Why should we keep trying to force ourselves into white restaurants and schools when white people didn’t want us? Why not clean up our own neighborhoods and schools instead of trying to move out of them and into white people’s neighborhoods? (Black Pride Quotes)
I spent money, and I kept thinking, ‘I get one more movie and I’ll wipe these bills out,’ but that movie never came. That black pride, I said, ‘Man, I’m going to hang in there, I’m going to pay these bills.’ So you owe a million dollars. ‘I can pay that.’ OK, fines, fees, now you owe two and a half million. ‘But I didn’t do nothin’!’ (Black Pride Quotes)
I’ve always taken pride to be the white guy that can talk to the black people, that can refer to them truly as a brother from a different mother. (Black Pride Quotes)
No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I liked in the only voice I had. (Black Pride Quotes)
There are too many black players. Italy has no dignity, no pride (Black Pride Quotes)