Black Quotes
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Electing a black president was probably the only coup America could pull off (Black Quotes)
I don’t feel that America has a black dude right now. I’m that dude. (Black Quotes)
In black America mother love is second only to the love of God but just slightly (Black Quotes)
There’s a million white people better qualified than a black man to be president of America (Black Quotes)
There ought to be a robust, uninhibited conversation in black America with different black ideological perspectives. (Black Quotes)
What would America be like if we loved black people as much as we loved black culture? (Black Quotes)
Young black men in America have an identity ascribed to them that is a direct legacy of slavery (Black Quotes)
The danger to a black child in America is not a white police officer. The danger is another black. (Black Quotes)
Welcome to America, where racism will never end, white don’t respect black, where black skin people are treated like criminals. (Black Quotes)
I don’t see no black and white couples in England or America walking around proud holding their children and going out. (Black Quotes)
As a young, Black man in America, I look out and (realize) that our community is the most affected by HIV. (Black Quotes)
Where else but in America can a poor black man like Michael Jackson grow up to be a rich white woman? (Black Quotes)
Black men - one might be the president. Well, America’s in too much trouble - I don’t want that job now. (Black Quotes)
What Martin Luther King is doing is disarming the black people of America of their God-given right and of their natural right. (Black Quotes)
I personally feel like black people in America have contributed so much for so long, and haven’t always gotten credit for it. (Black Quotes)
Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it. (Black Quotes)
Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it. (Black Quotes)
Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried. (Black Quotes)
Don’t even FRONT like you love your family, America, or God, if you don’t have a DETAILED and REHEARSED Black Friday tactical shopping plan. (Black Quotes)
That’s where Dr. [Martin Luther] King is mixed up. His goals should be the solution of the problem of the black man in America. (Black Quotes)
Black Americans are the only people in history who are for education instead of liberation. George Washington wasn’t beating up on British for the right to open a college! The line isn’t Give me education or give me death. (Black Quotes)
A very hurting thing for Black Americans - to feel that we can’t love our enemies. People forget what a great tradition we have as African-Americans in the practice of forgiveness and compassion. And if we neglect that tradition, we suffer. (Black Quotes)
In terms of viewing the world in a certain way, when you’re talking about monsters and talking about the metaphor that you’re trying to create, as Black Americans, you oft times stand apart and you have to look at things from the inside out or the outside in. (Black Quotes)
I think this is what people misunderstand about Martin Luther King saying to love your enemies. They think he was just using this silly little phrase, but what he meant was that as Black Americans we need to let our anger go, because holding on to it we hold ourselves down. We oppress ourselves by holding on to anger. (Black Quotes)
I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo. (Black Quotes)
As soon as you say that there is a community called, let’s say, black Americans, you’ve immediately created a boundary line - who’s in that group, who’s outside that group. (Black Quotes)
The closest Indian analogy to the position of black Americans is that of the Dalits - formerly called ‘Untouchables,’ the outcastes who for millennia suffered humiliating discrimination and oppression. (Black Quotes)
The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in our history, not only during the period of slavery but also in the Jim Crow era that followed. (Black Quotes)
Law enforcement’s biased view of the Irish lives on in the nickname we still use for the vehicles we use to transport groups of prisoners. It is, after all, the ‘paddy wagon.’ The Irish had tough times, but little compares to the experience on our soil of black Americans. (Black Quotes)
If his presidency is to represent the full power of the idea that black Americans are just like everyone else - fully human and fully capable of intellect, courage and patriotism - then Barack Obama has to be subject to the same rough and tumble of political criticism experienced by his predecessors. (Black Quotes)