Top 714 Blacks Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions.

If blacks are oppressed in America, why isn’t there a black exodus?

I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the farmers. I hoed cotton with them. I'm with the blacks, because we're white trash. We're going across the field.... They're singing and happy. I never heard one of them, one black person, say, I tell you what: These doggone white people - not a word!... Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say: Were they happy? They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues.

Blacks who lack a proper killing rage are merely victims.

Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a menace to the race.

Republicans have reached out so much to black Republicans because it's part of our tradition. Blacks have been in this nation longer than most other Americans with the possible exception of white Anglo-Saxon Protestant. The first blacks in Congress and the first black Governor were all Republicans. It was Republicans who fought the Civil War over slavery and who introduced the Civil Rights legislation over the next hundred years.

The unemployment rate is still twice as high for blacks as for whites.

We Greeks are the blacks of Europe.

As blacks, all we got is sports and entertainment. That's the only way out the hood sometimes.

They [the blacks] had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.

Jazz is a racist musical form invented by whites to enslave blacks.

The poor are the blacks of Europe.

Trump just looks stupid trying to appeal to blacks and Latinos.

If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil.

The fear of blacks has become the dirty little secret of our political culture.

The white imagination is sure something when it comes to blacks.

I love blacks and gays and latinos, as long as they don't live next door.

Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.

Martin Luther King fought for blacks, and democratic whites were with him.

Our Blacks Are Better Than Their's

There is a tendency to want to treat blacks as a monolithic socioeconomic group.

Most blacks are happy, except those who have had other ideas pushed into their ears.

Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job, or a slum mother battling to give her kids a chance for a better life. But white is beautiful, too, when it helps change society to make our system work for black people also. White is ugly when it oppresses blacks-and so is black ugly when black people exploit other blacks. No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin.

As for the not-black black president issue - white people can imagine blacks worse off than them, no problem. And now they can imagine blacks better off, no problem. But they still can't imagine black people who are just like them. That's the real problem. That's racism. Not being able to believe that those others are actually just like you.

Do you have blacks, too?

People feel certain things. Hispanics feel certain things towards blacks. Blacks feel certain things towards other groups. It's been that way historically and it will always be that way.

I like suits that are fitted. And I usually stick to grays, whites, and blacks.

I'm not gonna ruin my reputation with the blacks no more.

I feel there should be blacks in every Party.

I have a suspicion the blacks model themselves on the whites now that they're in power. 'Don't you know who we are, man?'

We don't owe the blacks a damn thing, anyway.

Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black.

My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.

Blacks Bought A Lot Of Propaganda On The Liberal Plantation.

I'll hire blacks as long as they can do the cotton-pickin' job.

The party of Lincoln should be reaching out to blacks, Hispanics gays and so forth and so on.

There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.

A riot is the language of the unheard. On blacks in America; address at Birmingham AL

My honest opinion is that blacks have to fight much harder for their individuality than whites do.

Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart.

I'm against reparations. At this point, blacks should just be handing money to themselves.

Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.

Once you sophisticate the in-betweens, your blacks and whites can take their solos and shine.

What I can't understand why Blacks can't achieve royal status when it comes to forms that they have largely created? I mean there's a White King of Rock n' Roll, there's a White King of Jazz, how come we can never achieve titles of royalty in these fields we are supposed to prevail in? They held a so called Rock and Roll Hall of Fame the other night, where White judges credit people who resemble them with the invention of Rock and Roll. I didn't even see Blacks in the audience.

None of us were prepared to hear what Justice Scalia said, because in essence what he was saying is let`s go back to pre-Board of Education - Brown versus Board of Education, 1950s America where blacks are doing all right going to black schools or schools where blacks go. He said go to less advanced schools where they do all right. We`re going back to separate but equal.

If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many 'bads' - bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even 'bad' white males. Only, when you write about 'bad' white males, they don't complain about it. And need I say that there are 'good' blacks, 'good' homosexuals and 'good' women?

We felt that as blacks there was a quota. We used to talk with other blacks on other clubs. There was a way they use to do it called stacking. If you had five halfbacks instead of one being a left halfback and one being a right halfback then you would stack them all at left and let them cut each other. It kept the numbers down. A lot of them went to Canada. We would talk with guys on the other clubs including Detroit, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Cleveland, San Francisco and whoever. The numbers remained relatively about the same in the 1950's. They weren't carrying more then six.

School shootings were invented by blacks... and stolen by the white man.

For two centuries, the South has feared a takeover by blacks or the feds. In Obama, they have both.

Of course, it's fun to play with Blacks.

How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?

We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable.

You are losing because blacks are getting their civil rights in the cities.

the higher the flame shoots the quicker it blacks out.

Blacks are six times more likely than whites to be victims of homicides.

On the political front, of course it's a zero-sum game. If it's all white males holding positions, you bring 10 women in, then it's, 'Women are coming!' Get 10 blacks and it's, 'Blacks are coming!' 'Hispanics are coming!' Zero-sum game. The seatmates might change but the chairs don't move. In the economy, the number of chairs can actually increase.

Gays are the molecular opposites of blacks.

Sisters, brothers and the whities, Blacks and the crackers, Police and their backers, They're all political actors

The poverty rate among black married couples has been in single digits ever since 1994. You would never learn that from most of the media. Similarly you look at those blacks that have gone on to college or finished college, the incarceration rate is some tiny fraction of what it is among those blacks who have dropped out of high school. So it’s not being black; it’s a way of life. Unfortunately, the way of life is being celebrated not only in rap music, but among the intelligentsia, is a way of life that leads to a lot of very big problems for most people.

If the U.S. has its Vietnam... the Soviet Union has its Czechoslovakia. If the U.S. has its blacks and chicanos, then the Soviets have their Jews.