Black People Quotes

Jews, black people - any people who are hated or who have suffered, either as individuals or as a people - use humour. It is a survival skill.

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.

Brown people wouldn't speak to someone who was black.

God created black people and black people created style.

People only say I’m angry because I’m black and I’m a woman.

In Ethiopia, the black people became Christians 1700 years ago, hundreds of years before Northern Europe turned to Christianity... And here, most of the saints are black.

When Black people seriously organize and take up arms to fight for our liberation, there will be a lot of white people who will drop dead from no other reason than their own guilt and fear.

Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.

People think that I'm some tough renegade, black-hearted being, evil, but that ain't me.

The films of Warhol, when they are about anything are about sucking people off. This can be high art, to people who are interested in sucking people off. But that will not liberate Black people.

Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land.

When you dishonor the the utter glory and majesty of black people, you lie. Your heart lies to you and you let it

It's possible and available to any artist to be himself or herself on their own terms, to be accepted and embraced by black people. You don't have to be a thug to get love from black people.

I don't think because I hang out with enough black people, I'm gonna turn black. What kind of rationalization is that? I'm just friends with people that I like. I don't care what skin color you are.

Fox News never calls up Bobby Seale to articulate a stance in opposition to right-wing conservatives. To me, giving the New Black Panthers a platform on Fox is a subtle tactic to scare people.

I'm glad Hurricane Katrina happened. It taught us an important lesson: black people can't swim.

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

There are three dominant tendencies in a neoliberal society: financialized, privatized, militarized. And when it comes to black poor people, we get all three.

It's a great day in America when white people, black people and Latinos can all come together and pick on another minority.

Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four.

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

Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.

To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good. To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.

God created people in technicolor. God has never made a difference between black, white, blue, green or pink

All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and let him have a chance to rise by his own efforts.

When I first started doing comedy, there was no such thing as a room that had black people and white people in it. That didn't exist.

I'm glad that young black people are successful with the music. I'm not a hater.

Stereotypes wouldn't be so bad if black people were nicer, in general.

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.

Black people use body lotion every single day.

I don't speak for all of us, but I'm pretty sure that my thoughts and opinions and beliefs identify with most people who are black because that's my soul.

When white people wear baggy clothing and speak gibberish they're homeless, when black people wear baggy clothing and speak gibberish they're called rappers.

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.

George Bush doesn't care about black people... They're saying black families are looting and white families are just looking for food... they're giving the (Army) permission to shoot us.

Either black people end up being the best in sports, or else it's show business. You know, we all got rhythm.

The single most important lesson I learned is that black people are the cause of black people's demise.

They don't make red noses to fit black people. I have a wide nose like a Volkswagen and I have never had a red nose that fitted me.

Black people have this thing about calling themselves apes and monkeys I know they get real (whatever) and I don't blame em'. But I feel like I'm a brute. I am, but I'm smart though. I'm not a dummy.

Everybody knows that Black Sabbath started everything and almost every single thing that people are playing today has already been done by Black Sabbath. They wrote every single good riff... ever.

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.

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

White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.

It is our experience that the nation doesn't move around questions of genuine equality for the poor and for black people until it is confronted massively, dramatically in terms of direct action.

If you're into social justice it's hard not to be on black people's side.

Whose the spiritual people pon earth. The Black people. Dem a deal wit God. And God no let dem down.

Reckless capitalism kills black people.

A recent poll shows that a majority of blacks, whites, Asians and Hispanics do not think the Census should be classifying people as black, white, Asian and Hispanic.

Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith.