B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Black people playing tennis, next white people will be tap dancing!”
“Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose some of their alienation. This museum has certainly stood for that in this town.”
“Black people still call me Prince. Sometimes I ask them, "Why do you call me Prince?" And people say, "Because you are a prince to us." Usually when they say that, you know my heart goes out and I have to say, "I don't mind your calling me that."”
“Black people use body lotion every single day.”
“Black people watch more television than anybody else, which makes it legitimate to talk about television. Its anesthetizing effect has been quite real. But that concern isn't new.”
“Black people we've been taught that we will never be free, until some will have to die, some will have to give up wealth, their loved ones, and their health, So, what I'm doin' is for myself and for justice for black people, runnin' will kill it all, it'll make me a coward.”
“Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.”
“Black people will always find each other
in the passage between death and America”
Source: Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
“Black people, you must learn to love other black people again. The past made you to see each other as competitors and enemies. But I can assure you that today is a new day. It's now safe to love one another again. It's safe to protect each other once more, as you did when you were slaves. It is finally safe to embrace one another again. Let's move forward in unity.”
“Black people, you must remember that you're not alone in the pursuit of equality.”
“Black people's music is in a class by itself and always has been. There's nothing like it. The reason for that is because it was not tampered with by white people. It was not on the media. It was not anywhere except where black people were. And it is one of the art forms in which black people decided what is good in it. Nobody told them. What surfaced and what floated to the top, were the giants and the best.”
“Black Poetry is not for Black People...it is for everybody”
“Black Poets should live--not leap
From steel bridges, like the white boys do.”
Source: Belly song and other poems
“Black politics is redemption and transformation. It's not always pretty, but it's not always ugly either. I'll put India.Arie up against Donald Trump any day and let the people choose.”
“Black Power alone is no more insurance against social injustice than white power.”
“Black Power can be clearly
defined for those who do not
attach the fears of white America
to their questions about it.”
Source: Stokely speaks; Black power back to Pan-Africanism
“Black power got to moving so fast that we miscalculated the fallout. I certainly have to take some of the responsibility of that; but there was no way we anticipated the response.”
“Black Power If the motive is good, and there are no other possibilities, then seen most deeply it [violence] is nonviolence, because its aim is to help others.”
“Black Power is a nihilistic philosophy born out of the conviction that the Negro can't win... the view that American society is so hopelessly corrupt and enmeshed in evil that there is no possibility of salvation from within.”
“Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.”
“Black power is organizing the rage of Black people and putting new hard questions and demands to white America.”
“Black power showed up in different ways, depending on the goals of the group.”
Source: Unfinished Agenda: Urban Politics in the Era of Black Power
“Black Power simply means: Look at me, I'm here. I have dignity. I have pride. I have roots. I insist, I demand that I participate in those decisions that affect my life and the lives of my children. It means that I am somebody.”
“Black pride. Gay pride. White, Anglo-Saxon Protestant pride. All of these things, you know, they're polarized, aren't they? The red and blue states. Christians, that's the most insidious aspect of it, giving into this great Christian image of America. That's the most frightening thing of all. Whereas in the past they're trying to find things that unite us, to minimize the differences. Whereas today there's this belief in empowerment and entitlement by maximizing differences. I'm not so sure that that's healthy.”
“Black professors make more than white professors. That's because we are in demand. I'll tell you, give me two blacks in institutions of higher learning, one has a Ph.D. from an elite institution and has a certain publication record. You give me a white scholar with the same credentials, and I will take that black scholar.”
“Black racism is a myth created by whites to ease their guilt feelings. As long as whites can be assured that blacks are racists, they can find reasons to justify their own oppression of’ black people.”
Source: Black Theology and Black Power
“Black reached for a Glock G21 SF. Two boxes of .45 Precision Tactical. Two knives. If he needed more, he was in real trouble.”
Source: Black Fire
“Black Realism or cosmopolitan black politician is a code word to say this is a black person that is not tied to a civil rights/black power traditional black politics.”
“Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else.”
“Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression. We are being manufactured in droves in the ghetto streets, places like attica, san quentin, bedford hills, leavenworth, and sing sing. They are turning out thousands of us. Many jobless Black veterans and welfare mothers are joining our ranks. Brothers and sisters from all walks of life, who are tired of suffering passively, make up the BLA.”
Source: Assata: An Autobiography
“Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.”
Source: Assata: An Autobiography
“Black Revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. We are shaped by our oppression. We are being manufactured in droves in the ghetto streets, places like attica, san quetin, bedford hills, leavenworth, and sing sing. They are turning out thousands of us.”
“Black road wove ahead of me,
Drizzling rain fell,
To accompany me
Someone asked for a spell.
I agreed, but I forgot
To see him in light of day,
And then it was strange
To remember the way.
Like incense of thousand censers
Flowed the fog
And the companion bothered
The heart with a song.
Ancient gates I remember
And the end of the way --
There the man who went with me
"Forgive," did say.
He gave me a copper cross
Like my brother very own
And everywhere I hear the sound
Of the steppe song.
Here I am at home like home --
I cry and I am in rue
Answer to me, my stranger,
I am looking for you!”
“Black rose, black rose
Who’s gonna be your only one?
Who’s gonna keep you safe and warm?
Run, run my baby black rose
I’m gonna find you home.”
Source: BLACK ROSE: Short terror tale - FREE ENGLISH EDITION
“Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.”
“Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined in and we just did it.”
“Black Sabbath wasn't like the Bon Jovis of the time. We were just a bunch of guys that were against the grain of society. And we sung about things that people thought back then.”
“Black scientists and technicians, many of them women, used cells from a black woman to help save the lives of millions of Americans, most of them white. And they did so on the same campus—and at the very same time—that state officials were conducting the infamous Tuskegee syphilis studies.”
Source: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
“Black seems to make a colour cloudy, but darkness doesn't. A ruby could thus keep getting darker without ever becoming cloudy; but if it became blackish red, it would become cloudy.”
“Black skin absorbs more radiation than white skin.”
“Black skin was filled with so many barriers, so many restrictions, so many.”
Source: Into White
“Black smoke, the flickering sister of fire.”
Source: Aeschylus I: The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliant Maidens, Prometheus Bound
“Black, so much black paint
smears itself across our windows.
We block out them,
yet we also block out light.”
Source: All the Hope We Carry
“Black squirrel on a slag of stone--carry me home.”
Source: Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems
“Black Stache had no love for the Queen, no love for women of any sort, except for his ma. He had a real soft spot for his ma, and was truly sorry for the time he’d marooned her.”
“Black stood naked and stretched. It took twenty minutes to feel normal. Fuck elite. He felt old.”
Source: Black Fire
“Black tenants smell and attract vermin.”
“Black,
The death of an old habit in order for a
new journey to start. The dark clouds
disappeared, chased away by the brilliant shine of your smile. So that I had the courage to be me once again…
~Riley”
Source: Beneath the Scars
“Black Tragedy lets slip her grim disguise and shows you laughing lips and roguish eyes; but when, unmasked, gay Comedy appears, how wan her cheeks are, and what heavy tears!”
Source: Poems
“Black Veil Brides will stand strong for you we will take on the world's hatred so that you don't have to listen to your music way to loud and be as crazy and as "different" as you want to be and always remember you're not alone.”