Black People Quotes (page 6)

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• smile
• annoying
• bear

I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons. Toni Morrison

• people
• black
• believe

I believe that when it comes to major foreign policy issues, many prefer to have black people seen and not heard. Cynthia McKinney

• people
• black
• view

I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts. Trisha Goddard

• black
• time
• death

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row. Danny Glover

• people
• black
• knows

There are no black people in Iraq, so how will they know who to shoot at? Greg Giraldo

• people
• black
• lost

Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried. Henry Louis Gates

• discrimination
• free
• people

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that. Henry Louis Gates

• movie
• people
• black

I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.' Henry Louis Gates

• people
• black
• appearance

It appears that there is a genocidal plan against Black people. Louis Farrakhan

• people
• black
• today

In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today. Buchi Emecheta

• people
• black
• recklessly

Reckless capitalism kills black people. Mos Def

• people
• movie
• images

I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not me, but black people - that were uncomfortable. Sidney Poitier

• progress
• people
• great

Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within the society any longer. Angela Davis

• people
• look
• couple

Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today. Angela Davis

• thinking
• people
• black

I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously. Bell Hooks