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They have what you call a black night where they have black people come in for just one night only to watch comedy, and you get all your local drug dealers, thugs, prostitutes, all of them come in, sit down, and listen to you tell jokes. They the hardest people to make laugh (Black Quotes)
We need to take responsibility and educate people. That’s why black folks don’t like me. I always say it’s our responsibility to make safe neighborhoods. It’s our job to get them cleaned up (Black Quotes)
We’ve begun to put fear into those whites who think they can do anything they want to a black person and get away with it (Black Quotes)
And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud (Black Quotes)
At the same time, I was listening to black music, and I began to think that the best musicians were receiving the worst treatment. The people who were doing the greatest work were despised as lower class, with no dignity accorded to what they did (Black Quotes)
I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts (Black Quotes)
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 (Black Quotes)
When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law? (Black Quotes)
It is a struggle; for though the black man fights passively, he nevertheless fights; and his passive resistance is more effective at present than active resistance could possibly be. He bears the fury of the storm as does the willow tree (Black Quotes)
It slaps your dignity just right. I loved the idea of these proud, dignified black men, and I saw the older ones wounded, and it wounded me ten times as much because I couldn’t stand seeing them hurt like this (Black Quotes)
I’m here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that’s true of every black person I know who has achieved (Black Quotes)
Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind of job that was useful to the community (Black Quotes)
One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community (Black Quotes)
The black community now in many ways divided itself the way the larger white community divides itself, over class issues. and that race is no longer the bond that it once was. That’s one of the prices you pay for progress (Black Quotes)
When you say that you are a race man, it means that you embrace the entire black community regardless of the hue, whether somebody is very light and could pass for possibly white or someone is very dark (Black Quotes)
I like science fiction and physics, things like that. Planets being sucked into black holes, and the various vortexes that create possibility, and what happens on the other side of the black hole. To me it’s the microcosmic study of the macrocosmic universe in man, and that’s why I’m attracted to it (Black Quotes)
Washington is a great international city and in the congregation we have people who are rich and poor, black and white, and from every part of the world (Black Quotes)
When we don’t have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you’re painting it and white is never as white (Black Quotes)
There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white. Or a rape (Black Quotes)
There’s a stake in your fat black heart and the villagers never liked you. they are dancing and stamping on you. they always knew it was you. Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I’m through (Black Quotes)
What good does it do a black youth to know that an employer must pay him $2 an hour if the fact that he must be paid that amount is what keeps him from getting a job? (Black Quotes)
I’ll know how outraged I am when I know how many black people were on those flights (Black Quotes)
My right to think for myself, to refuse to have my ideas assigned to me as though I was an intellectual slave because I’m black (Black Quotes)
The atmosphere is blue by reason of the darkness above it because black and white make blue (Black Quotes)
Burn shavings and splinters of pitch pine, and when they turn to charcoal, put them out, and pound them into mortar with size. This will make a pretty black for fresco painting (Black Quotes)
Sure, I look like a white man. But my heart is as black as anyone’s here (Black Quotes)
It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music (Black Quotes)
I liked the fact that there were so many different representations of black women and black men in the movie. It wasn’t like we all had the same agenda (Black Quotes)
I think my work shows that I love women. I understand where these types of criticisms are coming from because black people have been so dogged out in the media, they’re just extra sensitive (Black Quotes)
There’s a lot of Americans, black and white, who think that we’ve arrived where we need to be and nothing else needs to be done and affirmative action needs to be dismantled (Black Quotes)