Black Quotes

South Africans will kick down a statue of a dead white man but won’t even attempt to slap a live one. Yet they can stone to death a black man simply because he’s a foreigner

The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.

I was a black sheep, but now I'm just a goat

There are some fringe factions of the alt-right that have demonstrated genuinely racist, anti-Semitic, and prejudiced leanings. They clearly don't want a Jewish, homosexual, black-d - - supremacist as a spokesman. And I don't want to be associated with them, either.

Trump says he wants to run for president. Why not? It wouldn't be the first time he pushed a black family out of their home.

Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.

The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.

I would like to remind the black ministry and indeed all black people that God is not in the habit of coming down from heaven to solve people's problems on earth.

The total liberation and unification of Africa under an All-African Socialist Government must be the primary objective of all Black revolutionaries throughout the world. It is an objective which when achieved, will bring about the fulfillment of the aspirations of Africans and people of African descent everywhere. It will at the same time advance the triumph of the international socialist revolution.

Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain, /May be refin'd and join th' angelic train.

Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

The most disrespected person in America is the black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the black woman. The most neglected person in America is the black woman.

There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity... We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves. We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.

Greatness can be captured in one word: lifestyle. Life is God's gift to you, style is what you make of it.

I love berries. Strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, black berries, anything with an 'errie' in it!

I asked the Zebra, are you black with white stripes? Or white with black stripes? And the zebra asked me, Are you good with bad habits? Or are you bad with good habits?

Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being.

There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white.

When you say 'Black is beautiful' you are saying, 'Man you are okay as you are, begin to look upon yourself as a human being'.

Black Lives Matter is the ultimate divisive movement.

A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home.

Accept your place in the sun as it was originally before the creation of this world... The black man is the first and last, maker and owner of the universe.

When I die, I want to be remembered as a woman who lived in the twentieth century and who dared to be a catalyst of change. I don't want to be remembered as the first black woman who went to Congress. And I don't even want to be remembered as the first woman who happened to be black to make a bid for the Presidency I want to be remembered as a woman who fought for change in the twentieth century. That's what I want.

Black men, you were once great; you shall be great again. Lose not courage or faith, go forward.

The best thing about wearing black is that you can hide pretty easily, unless you're in like Hawaii, then you can't hide.

This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.

I asked the Zebra, are you black with white stripes? Or white with black stripes? And the zebra asked me, Are you good with bad habits? Or are you bad with good habits? Are you noisy with quiet times? Or are you quiet with noisy times? Are you happy with some sad days? Or are you sad with some happy days? Are you neat with some sloppy ways? Or are you sloppy with some neat ways? And on and on and on and on and on and on he went. I’ll never ask a zebra about stripes...again.

No other country in the world imprisons so many of its racial or ethnic minorities. The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid

Be Black, buy Black, think Black, and all else will take care of itself.

Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of years. Whites enslaved other whites in Europe for centuries before the first black was brought to the Western hemisphere. Asians enslaved Europeans. Asians enslaved other Asians. Africans enslaved other Africans, and indeed even today in North Africa, blacks continue to enslave blacks.

Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!

Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.

In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.

The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.

Black hair, angelic face, and devil eyes.

There will never be another Black Messiah unless we create him

When you say to a person of colour, 'When I see you, I don't see you Black; I just see everybody the same' think about that. You don't have the right to say to a person, 'I do not see you as you are; I want to see you as I would be more comfortable seeing you.'

The only person on the planet saying derogatory things about his woman is the black man.

We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right.

There is only one thing I fear in life, my friend: One day, the black will swallow the red.

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

Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.

Those who are most sensitive about "politically incorrect" terminology are not the average black ghetto-dweller, Asian immigrant, abused woman or disabled person, but a minority of activists, many of whom do not even belong to any "oppressed" group but come from privileged strata of society.

When you're a black woman, you seldom get to do what you just want to do; you always do what you have to do.

I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black...men are men.

Self esteem comes from achievements. Not from lax standards and false praise.

Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.

Gazing into the mirror, I saw myself as I was-a black silhouette in the room, a woman whose darkness had completely leaked through.