Black People Quotes

Fighting by itself doesn't interest me anymore. I want to help people, the black people and I need any kind of media to spread my thought: God, charity, peace.

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.

I don't want the Obama era to be more about symbolism than substance when it comes to black people. I love him, but I love black people even more.

At the KFC there's, lot of black people there innit *laughs*

A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people.

Eddie [Murphy] is an icon. He's one of the reason why I started doing comedy in the beginning. He opened a lot of doors for black people.

I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we're complicated.

Black people playing tennis, next white people will be tap dancing!

I write from a people's point of view. I love people because I understand them. I understand an enemy, I understand a friend, I understand grey areas, and I understand black areas.

I make shoes for white suburban kids, not the poor black kids. That would be like opening a restaurant for people without stomachs.

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

I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.

Anything I have ever learned of any consequence, I have learned from Black people. I have never been bored by any Black person, ever.

You have to look at the fact that Hip Hop is under attack. It's not just Hip Hop but Black people, Latino people and all people are under attack for different things.

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

There's not too many rich black people in this world.

I love black people, but I hate niggers.

In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts that much. And we didn't recognize marriages that much, either.

It was illegal for black people and white people to play checkers together in Birmingham. And there were even black and white Bibles to swear to tell the truth on in many parts of the South.

I think it talks about the fact that there are black people in the world who have tremendous amount of talents and have no channel through which they can those talents.

Throughout history there have been black people who have played mammies, all sorts of offensive images, who didn't mind doing it.

I have no interest in romanticizing poor black people, having been one of them myself in our beloved hometown of Detroit.

I've heard that Black people and Black faces don't sell magazines, but one day you're going to beg me to be on there.

I look at modeling as something I'm doing for black people in general.

There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.

There's a price tag on everything including black people's lives and what they do with them.

It doesn't do any good to just be on the side of black people. The funnier comedic position is to be on the side of oppressed people in general.

What!? You tell people that, I won't get no more black movies?

We got no wealthy black people. We got rich people. Shaq is rich. The guy who signs his checks is wealthy.

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

I'm the only person on Earth who's not afraid to admit that black people are better dancers than white people! I said it, I said it! You were all thinking it, I said it!

Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.

I think that humanity is at an all-time low in how we value life, especially among young Black people. We just don't really value each other's lives .

In my experience I haven't met too many uptight black people. I'm sure they're out there. Like I'm some big authority and I've lived in the inner city and ghetto.

The interesting thing about Georgia is, Atlanta is teeming with middle-class black people and black people with money - and yet there is still segregation.

I don't want to make black people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money. I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money.

For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event.

Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.

Life's complicated and people do things for a lot of reasons. I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you're gonna suffer a lot. I used to be like that. But I don't believe that anymore.

The people who couldn't get out of New Orleans to escape the storm were predominantly Black.

Most stick people are black.

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

One of the burdens of being a black male is carrying the heavy weight of other people’s suspicions.

Sometimes the stereotypes that a lot of people have are of black men in jail or who don't take care of their kids, so I think it's always important to have that.

I think it's going to be great if people can buy a ticket to fly up and see black sky and the stars. I'd like to do it myself-but probably after it has flown a serious number of times first!

Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and these are my influences.

A lot of people are wanting him [Barack Obama] to be the president just because he's black. But I think he does have some good views.

Thank you, God, because I am lucky. Also let's face it, it turns out I'm black. And I'm having a career quite different from lots of people, so I feel doubly lucky.

We're going to have to debunk the myth that Africa is a heaven for black people -- especially black women. We've been the mule of the world there and the mule of the world here.

There was a great deal of inbreeding between the Indians and the slaves. Genetically speaking, black people are some part black, some part European.