black Quotes

“As a young black boy, it made me proud to see black leaders that did something amazing and made the world change.”

“I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.'”

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

“To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.”

“The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn't have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river.”

“I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.”

“The silver and black may have another home, but the Raiders will always belong to the people of Los Angeles.”

“Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.”

“Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard.”

“If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.”