Black People Quotes

Black People Quote of the day

For me, soldiers are all equal. Those black people wore your same uniform, fought on your side, and so you will be in the same jail.

Black people know what white people mean when they say “law and order”.

It's time for Black people to stop playing the separating game of geography, of where the slave ship put us down. We must concentrate on where the slave ship picked us up.

I'm light skinned, and I used to lean on that because that's something a lot of black people pride themselves on, and it's weird.

The racist dog policemen must withdraw immediately from our communities, cease their wanton murder and brutality and torture of black people, or face the wrath of the armed people.

Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.

Black Consciousness therefore takes cognizance of the deliberateness of God's plan in creating Black people black.

I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren't many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.

Black women are the strongest most hardworking people on earth.

One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto.

We're hip to the fact that Superman never saved no black people. You got that?

George Bush doesn't care about black people.

I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people.

Music played a large role in the survival of the black people in America — that and a sense of humor that just couldn't be enslaved.

There is an entire generation of young people who know nothing about how viciously the FBI attacked The Black Panther Party, and why.

A lot of people don't understand the Black Panthers Party's relationship with white mother country radicals.

What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It's the weight on our shoulders. That is what's actually different. We have the weight and burden of history.

Black power is organizing the rage of Black people and putting new hard questions and demands to white America.

Black people are the most talented people in the world.

The black people's struggle has vanquished racism. It was God who created colour. Today Obama, a son of Kenya, a son of Africa, has made it in the United States of America.

I do think we can be a little less PC when it comes to sports, though. Just once I want to hear an announcer go 'God, black people are fast. Holy cow! All of them. They're fast. Back to you Bob.'

It's a good feeling, that you can put your heart out there, no matter how black it is, and people can understand it.

I think black people have to be in control of their own image because film is a powerful medium. We can't just sit back and let other people define our existence.

A lot of people don't want to feel anti-black by being opposed to Obama.

The data is going to indicate sadly that when the Obama administration is over, black people will have lost ground in every single leading economic indicator category.

The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them.

First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.

When I die, the consciousness I carry I will to black people. May they pick me apart and take the useful parts, the sweet meat of my feelings. And leave the bitter bullshit rotten white parts alone.

Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact

It's a good time for black people to be alive.

I don't consider myself just a black man. I consider myself a brotha. I love my people.

Our situation is more psychological than people will admit. Black kids kill Black kids for the same reason cops do. They see no value.

I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had to go somewhere and do something to redeem my being alive.

I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn't know that.Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me

Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.

I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.

To be Christian is to be one of those whom God has chosen. God has chosen black people!

I have done more for black people than any other person in the nation, North or South.

Unfortunately, as I tell my white friends, we as black people, we're never going to be successful not because of you white people but because of other black people.

There were no black images of dignity, no images of beautiful black people. There was this big hole. I tried to fill it.

What would America be like if we loved black people as much as we loved black culture?

It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to define who we are.

The U. S. is becoming more hostile to Black people and other people of color. Racism is running rampant and xenophobia is on the rise

One of the worst things that happened to black people in America historically is integration. People ask me why I say that and I tell them it's because we gave up all of our control.

Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.

Black people cannot and will not become integrated into American society on any terms but those of self-determination and autonomy.

Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.

I'm not anti-anything. I'm not anti-Jew or Gentile, I'm not anti-white, but I am pro-black. I am pro my people. And I love us so much that it gets on my nerves when we do stupid things.

I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.

I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.