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Blackness Quotes

Black males who refuse categorization are rare, for the price of visibility in the contemporary world of white supremacy is that black identity be defined in relation to the stereotype whether by embodying it or seeking to be other than it…Negative stereotypes about the nature of black masculinity continue to overdetermine the identities black males are allowed to fashion for themselves. Bell Hooks
Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism. Audre Lorde
Black progressives suffered major disillusionment with white progressives when our experiences of working with them revealed that they could want to be with us (even to be our sexual partners) without divesting of white supremacist thinking about blackness. We saw that they were often unable to let go the idea that whites are somehow better, smarter, more likely to be intellectuals, and even that they were kinder than black folks. Bell Hooks
Black seamen - or "Black Jacks" as African sailors were known - enjoyed a refreshing world of liberty and equality. Even if they were generally regulated to jobs such as cooks, servants, and muscians and endured thier fellow seamen's racism, they were still freemen in the Royal Navy. One famous black sailor wrote, "I liked this little ship very much. I now became the captian's steward, in which I was very happy; for I was extremely well treated by all on board, and I had the leisure to... Tony Williams
Nikki Giovanni quote: "Black love is black wealth"
Black love is black wealth Nikki Giovanni
Black Consciousness is in essence the realization by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of their oppression. Steven Biko
Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people. Dinesh D'Souza
Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience. August Wilson
Black people are inferior to Caucasians. Blacks constitute a totally distinct group; they overshadow the country with the germ... of evil. David Wilmot
Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans. Kanye West
Johnnie Cochran quote: "Black jurors sit on juries every day and convict black people..."
Black jurors sit on juries every day and convict black people every day. Johnnie Cochran
Audre Lorde quote: "Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or..."
Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men. Audre Lorde
Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time. Steven Biko
Stephen King quote: "Black as night and as beautiful as forever."
Black as night and as beautiful as forever. Stephen King
Black moleskin gloves covered his hands; the right because it was burned, the left because a man felt half a fool wearing only one glove. George R. R. Martin

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