Top 1200 Black Racism Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

In black America there's such a thing as passing, the black people who are light skinned and they will pass for white.

The way in which these two practices contain each other is that it has always been possible to use the one against the other: to use racism-sexism to prevent universalism from moving too far in the direction of egalitarianism; to use universalism to prevent racism-sexism from moving too far in the direction of a caste system that would inhibit the work force mobility so necessary for the capitalist accumulation process.

I like to think my work is furthering black culture by educating and empowering black people.

The impact of black music and black art forms on American culture is really difficult to appreciate.

I am not a Republican, nor a Democrat, nor an American, and got sense enough to know it. I am one of the 22 million black victims of the Democrats, and one of the 22 million black victims of the Republicans, and one of the 22 million black victims of Americanism... You and I have never seen democracy; all we've seen is hypocracy... If you go to jail, so what? If you're black, you were born in jail. If you're black, you were born in jail, in the North as well as the South. Stop talking about the South. Long as you south of the Canadian border, you're south.

The leading distinction in magnets is the sex, male and female, and the next great difference in them is the colour. Those of Magnesia, bordering on Macedonia, are of a reddish black; those of Breotia are more red than black; and the kind that is found in Troas is black, of the female sex, and consequently destitute of attractive power.

I think that's the core of black aesthetics: the ability to improvise. That is what has enabled our [black people's] survival.

We must realise that prophetic cry of black students: Black man you are on your own!

If you're black, you can't just be ordinary. All successful black people are extraordinary.

Black girl stories aren't just for black girls: they're for everybody.

Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.

It's hypocritical to say Black Lives Matter' when we know Black life begins in the womb.

Wasn't Winston Churchill the first black president of America? There's a statue of him near me... that's black.

The Circle Theatre, black people had to sit in the balcony. Any theater with a balcony, black people had to sit up there. Black people couldn't check into any hotel except their own. And black people couldn't eat anywhere except in their own restaurants.

I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.

I love black. Anything black transforms lives in a profound way, particularly for women.

In my own life, when I'm not working, I do wear a lot of black. I think I do feel very comfortable in black.

A lot of the time, black people, we don't introduce ourselves as black.

But George Lucas is carrying about Black actors, about Black men, about Black history, which really incorporates and tells all of history. You can't take one race out without eliminating every other race if you're going to tell the story of the human race.

'Roots' did show that the audience would be receptive to black talent and a black story.

Amelie had on black pants, a black zip-up hoodie, andrunning shoes. So wrong.

I do admit that black men love me. I always forget that, and then I come to a black neighborhood and I remember.

The myth of black women profiting at the expense of black men is the oldest rap around.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

When I find a colour darker than black, I'll wear it. But until then, I'm wearing black!

The thing about black women and black hair is that you just have to experiment.

It's a lot easier being black than gay. At least if you're black you don't have to tell your parents.

There ought to be a robust, uninhibited conversation in black America with different black ideological perspectives.

My signature style is super uniformed. I like black pants, black blazers, and boots.

'Black Ice Cream' is a salute to the ladies with Black Girl Magic who exude a powerful sexual confidence.

I am black, and there's no getting around that, but being black doesn't define every aspect of my life.

In 2013, there were 6,261 black homicide victims in the US — almost all killed by black civilians.

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.

The Black Panther Party was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college campuses.

Blacks are tired of seeing whites saying, 'I understand you.' You need a black to direct a black film.

The media love to cover black people on the front page. After all, when you live in a society that will lock up about 30 percent of all black men at some time in their lives and send more of them to prison than to college, chances are a fair number of those black faces will end up in the newspaper.

The way black people feel, especially, is if you're going to tell a black story, let it come from a real place.

The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout.

I tend to play characters that aren't supposed to black or written black.

I don't mind being black. I'm black out loud. It's more than the people that they are, it's the condition that they represent.

I am for Obama, all the way. I dont support Obama just because he is a black man; I support him because he is an educated black man. He is making black people proud.

I know that statistically, it has been proven that there is a tremendous amount of black on black crime within the inner cities.

The United States is not a nation of black and white people. Any fool can see that white people are not really white, and that black people are not black.

We say Black lives matter, but a lot of white folks don't know Black folk.

I went to an historically black college where we're always told that there's limitation. And so I'm happy to represent for black colleges.

You can't get more racist than hating black conservatives just because they're black.

I wear black because I'm a large lady, and I have many exact replicas of the same black outfit.

Black Lives Matter is one iteration of a much larger struggle to fight for black people's freedom.

Black culture is cool, but black issues sure aren't, huh?

It's important to be an ally. You don't have to be a black woman to think we should have more black women in tech.

I don't like the term 'black film,' and I am proud to be black.

What makes Luke Cage unique isn't him being black. Yes, he is black, but he has other things.

I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.

I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.

I was raised in a black household and grew up with black homies.

I wear black on the outside 'Cause black is how I feel on the inside.

In all fields black consciousness seeks to talk to the black man in a language that is his own

Never mind that from the 1600s until the late twentieth century the population the United States was 85% white, 12% black, and there have been changes demographically in the United States since the days of its founding. So they're trying to tell you that the United States' greatness happened because of diversity. Well, go back and look at the days the country was founded, and they do. When they do that, they see how racist and bigoted this country was. they see the seeds for bigotry and racism and discrimination were sown at the founding, is how it's now taught.

What is being black? It's making the most of your life, not taking a single moment for granted. Taking something that's seen as a struggle and making it work for you, or you'll die inside. Not to say that my struggle is like the collective struggle of black America. But maybe my struggle is similar to one black dude's.

I’d noticed that his eyes were black – coal black.