“Whenever any black man in america shows signs of an uncompromising attitude, against the injustices that he experiences daily, and shows no tendency whatsoever to compromise with it, then the American press [characterizes him] as a radical, as an extremist someone who's irresponsible, or as a rabble rouser or someone who doesn't rationalize in dealing with the problem.” MenShowsProblemAmericaBlackAttitudePressesInjusticeTendenciesCompromiseRadicalIrresponsibleExtremistRationalizeUncompromising Author:Malcolm X
“For just once in my life, I'd like to get through a whole week without having to deal with some fool, white or black, who's got an attitude about the way I look.” WayLooksWholeBlackWhiteDealsAttitudeWeekFoolAppearance Book:Blanche Among the Talented Tenth: A Blanche White Mystery Source: Blanche Among the Talented Tenth: A Blanche White Mystery
“I think it's important for us to recognize that although historically black communities have been very progressive with respect to issues of race and with respect to struggles for racial equality, that does not necessarily translate into progressive positions on gender issues, progressive positions on issues of sexuality and in the latter 1990s we have to recognize the intersectionality, the interconnectedness of all of these institutions and attitudes.” ThinkingDoeHas BeensImportantBlackCommunityRaceAttitudeStruggleIssuesPositionInstitutionsGenderSexualityLatterProgressiveTranslateInterconnectednessIntersectionalityBlack CommunityRacial EqualityGender Issues Author:Angela Davis
“The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white - who find in that paranoid vision an excuse for counterproductive and ultimately self-destructive attitudes and behavior.” SelfLeftBlackWhiteAttitudeVisionWorstBehaviorBottomExcuseEnvyDestructiveResentmentParanoidTollsSelf DestructiveBlack Or WhiteCounterproductive Author:Thomas Sowell
“These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic calligraphy imprinted upon their forms and upon their attitudes, as though with the purpose of revealing that it had been a hand of the Middle Ages which had inscribed them there, and especially the fatal and melancholy meaning contained in them, struck the author deeply.” KnowsHandsAgeFormPurposeBlackAttitudeMiddleStonesGreekMelancholyPeculiarRevealingMiddle AgesGothicCalligraphy Author:Victor Hugo
“I was raised to believe that you had to do things better than white people in order to succeed. The old black shows were better than the white shows. "The Jeffersons" (1975) was a lot better. "Good Times" (1974) was way funnier. "Sanford and Son" (1972). Now, though, everyone thinks we're equal, so we submit the same shit that everyone else submits. And then we get mad when they won't air it. You got to go back to the old attitude of it has to be twice as good.” PeopleThinkingWayBelieveShowsOrderBlackWhiteAttitudeAirSonSucceedEqualMadRaisedGood TimesSubmitOrder To Succeed Author:Chris Rock
“The gestures and the swagger and the attitude of black men is imitated everywhere in American culture, but people still find black men intolerable.” PeopleMenStillsCultureBlackAttitudeGesturesAmerican CultureSwagger Author:Jess Row
“Since the white people collectively have practiced the worst form of hatred against Negroes in America and they know that they are guilty of it, now when The Honorable Elijah Muhammad comes along and begins to list the historic deed - the historic attitude, the historic behavior of the white man in this country toward the black people in this country, again, the white people are so guilty and they can't stop doing these things to make Mr. Muhammad appear to be wrong, so they hide their wrong by saying "he is teaching hatred."” PeopleKnowsMenCountryAmericaFormBlackWhiteAttitudeTeachingWorstBehaviorHatredDeedsListsGuiltyBlack PeopleHonorableWhite ManHistoricMuhammadTry AgainElijahElijah MuhammadHonorable Elijah Muhammad Author:Malcolm X
“There is a certain percentage of the white population ... if they started having more middle-class black kids who are friends with their kids, eating Cheerios in their kitchen, their attitudes start changing.” IfsKidsCertainBlackWhiteAttitudeClassMiddleEatingPopulationKitchenMiddle ClassPercentages Author:Barack Obama
“Colonization was the idea that once slavery ended African-Americans should be encouraged - or required, in some people's view - required to leave the country. It's part of an attitude toward the abolition of slavery which says America should not be a slave society, but it can never be a multiracial society. You can never have free black and white people living together.” PeopleShouldIdeasCountryTogetherAmericaBlackWhiteViewsAttitudeSlaverySlaveAfrican AmericanBlack And WhiteAbolitionMultiracialColonizationBe A SlaveBe EncouragedLiving TogetherAbolition Of Slavery Author:Eric Foner
“Latino actors and actresses have had to struggle for decades, but when I came around with Real Women Have Curves, attitudes were starting to change. We screened the film all over the world - in Jewish communities, black communities, Greek communities, German communities - and people across the board said, "That's my family."” PeopleWorldRealFilmBlackCommunityAttitudeStruggleMy FamilyGreekLatinoReal Women Author:America Ferrera
“We come from a proud tradition of people who have insisted that none of us can be truly successful until at least the barriers to such success and thriving are completely removed. I think the black narcissism that prevails, along with the stylish materialism and self-satisfied, smug attitudes among many of our upwardly mobile brothers and sisters should be identified and criticized.” PeopleThinkingBlackAttitudeSuccessfulBrotherProudTraditionBarriersMaterialismNarcissismBrothers And SistersStylish Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“I was doing cartoons and mocking white liberals, mocking the attitude of government who said to go slow, while intending to do absolutely nothing for black people, then called Negroes. And I had a lot of fun and I expressed a lot of anger. That was a thing that was important to know at that time. As I was emerging into more and more into politics that I was angry.” PeopleImportantFunBlackAttitudeBlack PeopleCartoonEmerging Author:Jules Feiffer
“The strange thing about my life is that I came to America at about the time when racial attitudes were changing. This was a big help to me. Also, the people who were most cruel to me when I first came to America were black Americans. They made absolute fun of the way I talked, the way I dressed. I couldn't dance. The people who were most kind and loving to me were white people. So what can one make of that? Perhaps it was a coincidence that all the people who found me strange were black and all the people who didn't were white.” PeopleKindHelpingFunBlackAttitudeStrangeCoincidence Author:Jamaica Kincaid