Black Quotes - Page 17

Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact

I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.

As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, he is trash.

What is possible for me is possible for you.

If you see me, I'm always wearing black and pink. If I don't have it on, I at least have something that's black and pink. For instance, like, a bracelet or something.

The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state.

You only have to read the lines of scribbly black and everything shines.

To a large extent the evil-doers have succeeded in producing at the output end of their machine a kind of black man who is man only in form. This is the extent to which the process of dehumanization has advanced.

If you have money and you have fame, but you don't have any confidence in your blackness, then it's all for nothing.

The black family unit that had survived 150 years of slavery was decimated in less than 30 years by welfare payments that stopped if the family structure remained intact.

In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.

Be black, shine, aim high.

I was dead until you found me, though I breathed. I was sightless, though I could see. And then you came...and I was awakened.

Energy is felt once the cards are dealt With the impact of roundhouse kicks from black belts that attack the microphone like cyclones or typhoons I represent from midnight to high noon.

There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

There's a secret government out here. It's been functioning since the beginning of time, and their whole job is population control. A lot of it is racist, so their target black people and minorities. People need to watch out for that, pay attention to how they're tryin' to change laws, and they're tryin' to control the world. They don't want just America or Europe any more; they want the entire globe.

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

Why does every black person in the movies have to play a servant? How about a black person walking up the steps of a courthouse carrying a briefcase?

None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.

I am not a black artist, I am an artist.

The black woman had had to struggle against being a person of great strength.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

I have a great relationship with the blacks. I've always had a great relationship with the blacks.

Holyfield won the fight. It's not the first time Romney has been knocked out by a black guy.