153 Blacks Quotes for You to Enjoy

I've skewered whites, blacks, Hispanics, Christians, Jews, Muslims, gays, straights, rednecks, addicts, the elderly, and my wife. As a standup comic, it is my job to make sure the majority of people laugh, and I believe that comedy is the last true form of free speech. Jeff Dunham

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My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first blacks in my town to own land. But, I was worried about my history being caked with that southern clay, and I subscribed to a different kind of teaching and learning in my bones and in my spirit. John Henrik Clarke

Me History Learning First Become Own Worried Kind Spirit About Blacks Clay Feel Town Southern Subscribed Being Different Wanted Land Different Kind Farmer Teaching Daddy Alabama Bones

In Selma, Alabama, in 1965, only 2.1 percent of blacks of voting age were registered to vote. The only place you could attempt to register was to go down to the courthouse. You had to pass a so-called literacy test. And they would tell people over and over again that they didn't or couldn't pass the literacy test. John Lewis

You Vote Age People Voting Down Tell Would Percent Blacks Only Could Attempt Had Over Pass Courthouse Test Go Were Literacy So-Called Place Again Register Registered Alabama

Whoever says that sanctions will only deteriorate the situations of blacks in South Africa does not know the criminal, murderous character of genocide that represents the system of apartheid. Oliver Tambo

Character Genocide Will South Africa Criminal Says System Deteriorate Blacks Only Know Does South Situations Represents Africa Apartheid Sanctions Whoever

What does it mean to be too black for Hollywood? It's self-explanatory. Hollywood has certain kinds of blacks that they like. Paul Mooney

Black Too Kinds Blacks Like Does Mean Hollywood Certain

The most successful terrorist group in the United States for almost 70 years was the Ku Klux Klan. They hated Catholics, Jews, and blacks. They were prone to violence. Pete Hamill

Group Jews States Hated Prone Blacks Klan Almost Most Catholics Terrorist Were Years Successful United United States Violence

Blacks commit murder eight times more per capita than any other group in our society. If I had put all of my police officers on Park Avenue and none in Harlem, thousands and thousands more blacks would've been killed during the eight years that I was mayor. Rudy Giuliani

Police Avenue Group Society Other Our Thousands Per Blacks More Park Had Put Police Officers None Been Years Times Than Officers Commit Any Eight Mayor Harlem

Republicans and blacks had an unlikely alliance around 'max black' after the 1990 census. By concentrating black voters in some districts, the strategy elected a record number of black congressmen in 1992. But the remaining 'bleached' districts were more likely to elect white Republicans. Adam Cohen

Black White Strategy Unlikely Districts Record Some Blacks More Alliance Remaining Had Voters Concentrating Likely Around Were Max After Census Republicans Elect Elected Number

Most of the people I've met who are black in other countries look up to the blacks in this country. Though they may talk differently, they are anxious to partake of this country simply because things in their country are not physically on par with what they are here. Alex Haley

People Black Country Met Other Other Countries Par Though Blacks Physically Simply Partake Countries Look Most Talk Because Up Anxious May Who Differently Things Here

I have my misgivings about 3-D. I don't like the lack of blacks and whites, how it dulls the image, how the color gets corrupted. I don't necessarily like the experience of having heavy glasses in front of me. Alfonso Cuaron

Me Experience Glasses Corrupted About Blacks Having Color Like How Gets Front Lack Heavy Whites Image Necessarily

Blacks as a group will never be equal while they have this situation going on, where the vast majority of children do not have fathers in the home married to their mother, involved in their lives, investing in them, investing in the next generation. Amy Wax

Home Generation Mother Will Situation Group Fathers Married Blacks Vast Vast Majority Never Investing Involved Equal Majority Going Where Children While Them Next Next Generation Lives

I think the blues is the best literature that we as blacks have created since we've been here. I call it our 'sacred book.' What I've attempted to do is to mine that field, to mine those cultural ideas and attitudes and give them to my characters. August Wilson

As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites. August Wilson

Good White Say Folks Blacks Soon Theater Whites Play

Ninety years after slavery, blacks were still segregated from whites. They still had separate drinking fountains, separate restrooms, separate neighborhoods, and separate schools. They still were expected to sit at the back of the bus. Benjamin Watson

Drinking Sit Back Ninety Neighborhoods Blacks Segregated Had Schools Still Were Years Expected After Bus Separate Whites Slavery

Republicans need to stop complaining about blacks voting over 90% for Democrats. If they're not willing to compete in those neighborhoods, they will keep losing those voters. Bob Beckel

Voting Losing Complaining Will Those Neighborhoods Willing About Blacks Over Voters Democrats Stop Republicans Keep Compete Need

Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves. Calvin Peete

If stop-and-frisk was a fair and balanced practice that targeted everybody equally across the board, then I could understand the extra precautions being taken, but since it's a practice that targets blacks and Hispanics and gives the police the right to lawfully profile us, I'm not with it. Charlamagne tha God

Police Practice Extra Everybody Blacks Gives Could Taken Since Fair Balanced Equally Understand Hispanics Targeted Targets Being Board Then Us Across Profile Right

I would sit in my room and become hysterical about the wild incredible story I was writing. And I thought I was writing realism. It never occurred to me that I was writing absurdity. Realism and absurdity are so similar in the lives of American blacks one cannot tell the difference. Chester Himes

Me Writing Thought Become Sit Incredible Wild Tell Would About Blacks Similar Never Hysterical Absurdity Occurred American Difference Cannot Story Realism Room Lives

When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. It's the people who are in school systems that don't educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit. Clarence Thomas

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

Blacks Only Knew Know Exemplary Acceptable Then Now

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