Best Black Race Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I loved going to church with Mother Dear (Ruby). The church members declared me the sweetest inside-out Oreo: White on the outside, a woman of color on the inside.”

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Book:Living Like The Future Matters: The Evolution of a Soil to Soul Entrepreneur

Source: Living Like The Future Matters: The Evolution of a Soil to Soul Entrepreneur

“Ham will continue to be servant of servants, as the Lord decreed, until the curse is removed. will the present struggle free the slave? No; but they are now wasting away the black race by thousands.... Treat the slaves kindly and let them live, for Ham must be the servant of servants until the curse is removed. Can you destroy the decrees of the Almighty? You cannot. Yet our Christian brethren think that they are going to overthrow the sentence of the Almighty upon the seed of Ham. They cannot do that, though they may kill them by thousands and tens of thousands.”

Thinking May Christian Black Race Lord Struggle Treats Slave Sentences Seeds Servant Curse Catholicism Almighty Brethren Decree Ham Black Race

Author:Brigham Young

“If ever America undergoes great revolutions, they will be brought about by the presence of the black race on the soil of the United States - that is to say, they will owe their origin not to the equality but to the inequality of conditions.”

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Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“I finally made up my mind that I would neither disclaim the black race nor claim the white race; but that I would change my name, raise a mustache, and let the world take me for what it would; that it was not necessary for me to go about with a label of inferiority pasted across my forehead.”

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Book:The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

Source: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

“I don't like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.”

Ideas Black Race Existence Black Race

Author:Gwendolyn Brooks

“I want to hear the chanting Around a heathen fire Of a strange black race.”

Want Black Race Fire Strange Singing Chanting Heathen Black Race

Author:Gwendolyn B. Bennett

“People keep telling me about the white race and the black race - and it really doesn't make sense. I played Miami, met a fellow two shades darker than me - and his name was Ginsberg! Took my place in two sit-in demonstrations - nobody knew the difference. The he tried for a third lunch counter and blew the whole bit ... asked for blintzes.”

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Author:Dick Gregory

“I certainly wasn't seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students. My homemade education gave me, with every additional book that I read, a little bit more sensitivity to the deafness, dumbness and blindness that was afflicting the black race in America. Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me, asking questions. One was, "What's your alma mater?" I told him, "Books.”

“And so this is Xmas for black and for white, for yellow and red, let's stop all the fight.”

Fighting Peace Black White Race Racism Red Yellow Xmas Anti Racism Black Racism Black Race White Racism

Author:John Lennon

“I want to make it clear that the black race did not come to the United States culturally empty-handed. The role and importance of ethnic history is in how well it teaches a people to use their own talents, take pride in their own history and love their own memories.”

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Author:John Henrik Clarke

“I have conceived a higher opinion of the natural capacities of the black race than I had ever before entertained. Their apprehension seems as quick, their memory as strong, and their docility in every respect equal to that of white children.”

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Book:A Benjamin Franklin Reader

Source: A Benjamin Franklin Reader

“I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my mental health.”

Want Persons Black White Racism Mental Health Democrat Racist Closest Slap Anti Racism Anti Racist Black Racism Black Race White Racism

Author:Charles Barron

“There is a natural disgust in the minds of nearly all white people to the idea of indiscriminate amalgamation of the white and black races... A separation of the races is the only perfect preventive of amalgamation, but as an immediate separation is impossible, the next best thing is to keep them apart where they are not already together. If white and black people never get together in Kansas, they will never mix blood in Kansas...”

People Ifs Mind Ideas Together Next Black Natural White Perfect Race Impossible Blood Separation Best Things Racist Black People Disgusting Get Together Kansas Amalgamation Black Race

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is physical difference between the two which, in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality, and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position.”

Source: The Portable Abraham Lincoln

“I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races: that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.”

“I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all.”

Source: I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

“Africans and persons of African descent must assume the primary responsibility and leadership in historical research....if we are to continue to leave practically all important historical research and writing concerning the black race to the white man, then we must be prepared to accept, uncomplainingly, the white man's point of view.”

“So when you enjoy the beats, the rock music - maybe even toned down with an orchestra - you are enjoying the spirit of the black race. And that's what I emphasize to the students.”

Spirit Enjoy Black Race Rocks Students Beats Orchestra Rock Music Black Race

Author:Warren Jeffs

“I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.”

War Office Favors Civil War Voters White Supremacy Supremacy Secession Jurors Qualifying Causes Of War Confederate Flag Black Race Political Equality

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“I used to joke for years that I was a black man. I adopted the black culture, the black race. I married a black woman, and I had black kids. I always considered myself a 'brother.'”

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Author:Tommy Chong

“Our clear goal must be the advancement of the white race and separation of the white and black races. This goal must include freeing of the American media and government from subservient Jewish interests.”

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Author:David Duke

“I think that show will go down in history... people will scratch their heads and say 'How did this ever get on the air?' I mean, they finally have a planet that's populated with a black race and then they present them as savage warriors, and the men want the white girl!”

People Thinking Men Want Mean Shows Girl Black White Race Air He Man Planets Warrior Savages Scratches Mean Girls White Girl Black Race

Author:Denise Crosby

“Yes, I'm an extremist. The Black race here in North America is in extremely bad condition. You show me a Black man who isn't an extremist and I'll show you one who needs psychiatric attention.”

Men Needs Shows America Black Race Attention Conditions Show Me Extremist North America Psychiatric Black Race

Book:The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.”

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Author:Branch Rickey

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