Black People Quotes (page 9)

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• people
• black
• achievement

It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater. Alvin Ailey

• positive
• saying
• people

When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

• people
• black
• soul

People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS. Madonna Ciccone

• classic
• thinking
• people

People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it's a classic album. But the fact is, both me and Mos Def have made better albums since Black Star. Talib Kweli

• kindness
• white
• failure

People are continually pointing out to me the wretchedness of white people in order to console me for the wretchedness of blacks. But an itemized account of the American failure does not console me and it should not console anyone else. That hundreds of thousands of white people are living, in effect, no better than the "niggers" is not a fact to be regarded with complacency. The social and moral bankruptcy suggested by this fact is of the bitterest, most terrifying kind. James Baldwin

• color
• black
• colorful

People can have the Model T in any color – so long as it’s black. Henry Ford

• people
• black
• go

People from major labels were afraid to go to Black Flag gigs throughout most of the band's existence. They treated our gigs as something threatening. I'm sure that it probably was. They probably had reasons to be scared. Greg Ginn

• thinking
• people
• black

People think that everyone wears black in France; in fact they all wear grey. Jean Paul Gaultier

• women
• people
• black

Black women are the strongest most hardworking people on earth. Dr. Dre

• people
• giving
• look

People would say you look weak if you're not cursing the opposition and driving around in a big black car while always wearing a tie. Above all, to be 'strong' you're always supposed to be giving orders. Georgios A. Papandreou

• manly
• thinking
• black

People think I'm this angry black man walking around in a constant state of rage. Spike Lee

• determination
• powerful
• black

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny. Huey Newton

• pretty
• white
• night

You are a white. The Imperial Wizard. Now, if you don't think this is logic you can burn me on the fiery cross. This is the logic: You have the choice of spending fifteen years married to a woman, a black woman or a white woman. Fifteen years kissing and hugging and sleeping real close on hot nights. With a black, black woman or a white, white woman. The white woman is Kate Smith. And the black woman is Lena Horne. So you're not concerned with black or white anymore, are you? You are... Lenny Bruce

• work
• vote
• people

We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him. We gave him his first love, 96 percent of blacks voted for him in 2008. Yet today we are the number one in unemployment, with 16 percent of American blacks out of work. Jesse Jackson

• mind
• god bless
• my friend

I’ve always been able to tell a lot about people by whether they ask me about my scar. Most people never ask, but if it comes up naturally somehow and I offer up the story, they are quite interested. Some people are just dumb: 'Did a cat scratch you?' God bless. Those sweet dumdums I never mind. Sometimes it is a fun sociology litmus test, like when my friend Ricky asked me, 'Did they ever catch the black guy that did that to you?' Hmmm. It was not a black guy, Ricky, and I never said it was. Tina Fey