Black America Quotes

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  • You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

    Speech in New York City, January 7, 1965.
  • America is capable at single moments of receiving the depth and the breadth of the homiletical vision of black America when a black preacher rises to his or her craft at the height of his or her ambition and the desire to tell America the truth.

    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • We have seen an unprecedented gathering of the leaders of black America coming together to speak with one voice, ... The whole spectrum of black thought was represented on this stage ... . This tells us that a new day is dawning in America.

    Voice   America   New Day  
  • Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land.

    Cornel West (2000). “Race Matters”, p.16, Beacon Press
  • It's not anything that is just perpetuated by White America or just perpetuated by Black America. It's just a cultural understanding that you're just not a part of the equation when it comes to sexuality and I think that people mistake your lack of opportunity with the level of your talent.

    Source: www.thewrap.com
  • It is not the destiny of Black America to repeat white America's mistakes. But we will, if we mistake the trappings of success in a sick society for the signs of a meaningful life.

    Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.77, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • I stand before you today as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the presidency of the United States. I am not the candidate of black America, although I am black and proud. I'm not the candidate of the women's movement of this country, although I am a woman, and I'm equally proud of that. I am not the candidate of any political bosses or fat cats or special interests... I am the candidate of the people...

    "African-American and Female in One Candidate". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 24, 2008.
  • I think that Malcolm X was the most remarkable historical figure produced by Black America in the 20th century.

    Source: historynewsnetwork.org
  • Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults.

  • In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.

    The Guardian, January 29, 1992.
  • If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country.

    Country   Baby   Children  
    "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements". Book by Malcolm X edited by George Breitman, 1965.
  • The question of religion in black America is something filmmakers don't want to touch.

    America   Black   Want  
  • I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.

    "Harriet, The Moses of Her People". Book by Sarah H. Bradford, 1886.
  • I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.

    Children   Men   Views  
    "Will Smith on Playing Muhammed Ali". abcnews.go.com. December 13.
  • If I could offer a single prescription for the survival of America, and particularly black America, it would be to restore the family. And if you asked me how to do it, my answer - doubtlessly oversimplified - would be; save the boys.

    Boys   America   Black  
    William Raspberry (1991). “Looking Backward at Us”
  • Black America Has Allowed Itself to Be Used by Race-Baiters and White Liberal Elitists

    Race   White   America  
  • I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

    Rosa Parks, Gregory J. Reed (1994). “Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation”, Zondervan
  • For black America needs a politics whose first mission isn't the reinforcement of the idea of black America; and a discourse of race that isn't centrally concerned with preserving the idea of race and racial unanimity. We need something we don't yet have: a way of speaking about black poverty that doesn't falsify the reality of black advancement; a way of speaking about black advancement that doesn't distort the enduring realities of black poverty.

    Reality   Race   Ideas  
  • About the state of black America, I've been working on that for many, many years. And [Donald Trump] said certain things in his early days about wanting to do something about it. We have a lot of violence in our neighborhoods now. We need education. And we need jobs. Is what I'm trying to say.

    Jobs   America   Years  
    Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
  • Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations.

  • Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

    "Understanding Cultural Diversity in Today's Complex World". Book by Leo Parvis, p. 54, 2010.
  • Leftist big-government policies have been disastrous for black America just as they were in the countries that most Hispanics emigrated from. But like the gambling addict who keeps gambling the more he loses, those addicted to government entitlements keep increasing the size of the government even as their situation worsens.

  • In the era of slavery, you could be a so-called Afro-Cuban one day and a so-called Black American the next day, or vice versa. I mean there was all this back and forth, and there was a lot of opposition in Black America to slavery in Cuba in particular, because slavery in Cuba lasted until the 1880s.

    Mean   Next Day   America  
    Source: politicalaffairs.net
  • 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.

    "John Mayer apologises after using N-word in Playboy interview" by Rosie Swash, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2010.
  • If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks of discrimination or slander.

  • We are the ones we've been waiting for.

    June Jordan, “Poem For South African Women”
  • we are the ones we have been waiting for

    Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.342, The New Press
  • You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

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

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • There's a class divide in black America that doesn't seem to trouble black Americans so much, but whites use it and exploit it. The progress of a few is allowed to stand for the progress of everyone. We can't afford that kind of disaffection at the moment.

    Class   America   Black  
    Source: www.guernicamag.com
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