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“Actually we've had a black bourgeoisie or the makings of a black bourgeoisie for many more decades.In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the US has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable. What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.”

“We have to look at for example the increasing globalization of capital, the whole system of transitional capitalism now which has had an impact on black populations - that has for example eradicated large numbers of jobs that black people traditionally have been able to count upon and created communities where the tax base is lost now as a result of corporations moving to the third world in order to discover cheap labor.”

“I would suggest is that in the latter 1990s it is extremely important to look at the predicament of black people within the context of the globalization of capital.”

People Looks Important Black Latter Black People Globalization Predicaments

Author:Angela Davis

“I do think it's extremely important to acknowledge the gains that were made by the civil rights movement, the black power movement.Institutional transformations happened directly as a result of the movements that people, unnamed people, organized and gave their lives to.”

People Thinking Made Important Black Results Rights Happened Movement Gains Transformation Civil Rights Acknowledge Organized Civil Rights Movement Black Power

Author:Angela Davis

“Often young black people are looking towards the alternative economies. They are looking towards the drug economy.... the economies that are going to that apparently will produce some kind of material gain for them.”

People Kind Young Black Economy Produce Materials Drug Gains Alternatives Black People

Author:Angela Davis

“The de industrialization of the US. economy based on the migration of corporations into third world areas where labor is very cheap and thus more profitable for these companies creates on the one hand conditions in those countries that encourage people to emigrate to the US. in search of a better life. On the other hand, it creates conditions here that send more black people into the alternative economies, the drug economies, women into economies in sexual services, and sends them into the prison industrial complex.”

“We cannot assume that people by virtue of the fact that they are black are going to associate themselves with progressive political struggles. We need to divest ourselves the kinds of strategies that assume that black unity black political unity is possible.”

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Author:Angela Davis

“I think it's a wonderful thing to have African-American characters. Look at life. It's not a white world or a black world; there are all kind of people in it. It's showing growth, and in today's world there are so many outlets.”

People Thinking World Looks Kind Character Today Black Growth White Wonderful All Kinds African American Wonderful Things Outlets Today's World American Character

Author:Darius McCrary

“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.”

People Thinking America Opportunity Understanding Black White Levels Mistake Talent Sexuality Equations Black America

Author:Viola Davis

“We know the road of lack of recognition, of people telling us that we can't headline a movie because black women don't translate overseas, that every time we try to break the glass ceiling, people say no, people push back. And it's everything that people don't see out there.”

People Knows Trying Black Break Glasses Recognition Translate Black Women Ceilings Headlines Glass Ceiling

Author:Viola Davis

“The internal sexism within womanhood is very predominant in Hollywood, because we all want to be successful. There's a plug to it: You all have to be skinny! You all have to be pretty! You all have to be likable, because that's the formula that works. On an executive level. On a power level. And it's not always the same working with black people, because of the internalized racism. The colorism.”

People Want Black Levels Successful Racism Hollywood Being Successful Internals Executives Sexism Formulas Black People Womanhood Skinny Plugs

Author:Viola Davis

“Black people have slavery. And white people have our own thing-stuff we went though that hurt us that we have to cope with. Like when they took our slaves away. That was really hard for us. So it's pretty even.”

People Hard Funny Stuff Black Hurt White Comedy Slavery Slave Black People

Author:Louis C. K.

“Farrakhan got everybody together for the Million Man March and everything. But Farrakhan don't like the Jews. Which is bugged. I get my hair cut on Dekalb Avenue. I never been in a barbershop and heard a bunch of brothers talking about Jews. Black people don't hate Jews. Black people hate white people! We don't got time to dice white people up into little groups. I hate everybody! I don't care if you just got here. "Hey, I'm Romanian." "You Romanian cracker!"”

“Urban artist have to face the stigma not only from white Australia but black Australia too; that's horrific when people say that their art isn't "Aboriginal" if it doesn't have dots or lines or moieties in it.”

People Ifs Art Faces Artist Black Lines White Art Is Australia Urban Stigma Dots Horrific Aboriginal

Author:Warwick Thornton

“When you see a black guy on TV, he's always a thug or always portrayed as someone that's in trouble. It spreads the message to everyone else that that's who we are. People often don't try to understand black men as a whole. We're creative, strong and influential.”

People Men Trying Whole Guy Strong Black Creative Trouble Tvs Messages Spread Who We Are Influential Thug Black Guys

Author:Thomas Jones

“There are a lot of black men doing really well, taking care of their families, taking care of their wives, being successful, doing the right thing, promoting the right thing. There needs to be an evolution in our portrayal. We have to come together, pool our resources and tell our own stories. People won't respect us unless we make them.”

People Men Needs Wells Stories Care Together Black Successful Wife Evolution Resources Right Thing Being Successful Pool Promoting Doing The Right Thing Portrayal Story People

Author:Thomas Jones

“When I first started doing comedy, there was no such thing as a room that had black people and white people in it. That didn't exist.”

People Firsts Black White Rooms Comedy Black People

Author:Trevor Noah

“Sometimes the stereotypes that a lot of people have are of black men in jail or who don't take care of their kids, so I think it's always important to have that.”

People Thinking Men Important Sometimes Care Kids Black Take Care Jail Stereotype

Author:Morris Chestnut

“The abortion industry kills as many Black people every four days as the Klan killed in 150 years.”

People Years Black Four Industry Abortion Black People

Author:John Piper

“By speech first, but far more by writing, man has been able to put something of himself beyond death. In tradition and in books an integral part of the individual persists, for it can influence the minds and actions of other people in different places and at different times: a row of black marks on a page can move a man to tears, though the bones of him that wrote it are long ago crumbled to dust.”

“White people scare the crap out of me. I have never been attacked by a black person, never been evicted by a black person, never had my security deposit ripped off by a black landlord, never had a black landlord, never been pulled over by a black cop, never been sold a lemon by a black car salesman, never seen a black car salesman, never had a black person deny me a bank loan, never had a black person bury my movie, and I've never heard a black person say, 'We're going to eliminate ten thousand jobs here - have a nice day!'”

“God created people in technicolor. God has never made a difference between black, white, blue, green or pink”

People Made Black Differences White Blue Green Black White

Author:Bob Marley

“Whose the spiritual people pon earth. The Black people. Dem a deal wit God. And God no let dem down.”

People God Earth Spiritual Black Deals Wit Black People

Author:Bob Marley

“Because when you unite, that is the power of God, you know. God love Love, which is unity. So when you unite, you get the whole power of God. That's what him want. Until Black people unite...if the Black people don't unite, the world, no one, no one can live good.”

People Ifs Knows World Want Whole God Black Unity God Love Black People Want U Knowing God Power Of God Good God

Author:Bob Marley

“Soul was the music made by and for black people. For most of the Sixties it was thoroughly divorced from white popular music, but by the end of the decade several artists with their roots firmly in both soul and R&B traditions had crossed over.”

People Made Soul Ends Artist Black White Tradition Roots Decades Black People Sixty Divorced Popular Music

Author:Jon Landau

“This is what heaven's gonna be like. Not just a white church or a black church, but people.”

People Heaven Black Church White Black Church

Author:Mr. Wrestling

“What is superstition , but misguided, unobjective science? And when it comes down to that, is it to be wondered if people grasp at superstition in this rotten, hate-filled, half-doomed world of today? Lord knows, I'd welcome the blackest of black magic, if it could do anything to stave off the atom bomb.”

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Book:Conjure Wife

Source: Conjure Wife

“I'm not ideological. I think sometimes when people are ideological, the world's a lot easier. Because it falls into either right or wrong, or black or white, or whatever. To me, I'm still trying to figure out a lot of things.”

People Thinking World Trying Stills Sometimes Fall Black White Figures Easier Ideological Black Or White

Author:John O. Brennan

“When I walk out into the street or go to the toilet, I don't think of myself as being black. Of course, other people think of me as black when I walk into a pub. Obviously being black is a part of me.”

People Thinking Courses Black Walks Streets Toilets Think Of Me Pubs

Author:Steve McQueen

“I think white people like to tell Asian people how they should feel about race because they're too scared to tell black people.”

People Thinking Feels Should Black White Race Scared Black People Asian

Author:Margaret Cho

“I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods, most of which people don't need. I'm anti-consumerism; I own four pairs of black Levis and that's it.”

People Needs Believe Ideas Whole I Believe Black Four Consumers Pairs Goods Consumerism

Author:Paul Auster

“I found my personal style in black humor and mixing funny things with very touching ones - like trying to force people to cry and smile almost at the same moment.”

People Trying Moments Found Force Black Style Cry Touching Funny Things Mixing Personal Style Black Humor

Author:Malgorzata Szumowska

“The beauty of when you watch good television or films is that, yes, you may have a multi-cultural cast but those roles could be anybody - they could be white, they could be black. To show the world that we have more in common than we have different with each other is to me the ultimate goal of all of that. It does help unite in people's mind the thought that people are the same. Yes, there's going to be cultural differences, but for the most part, we are all in the same gang as human beings.”

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Author:Mekhi Phifer

“There are a lot of people who believe that the individual can't make it himself. And that's why people want to join up in various herds - herd formation. So you become part of a herd, a group. Group power of some kind. There's an awful lot of group power people in our country [the USA] - Black power, Chinese power, Indian power, woman power. Everyone is putting in together.”

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Author:Frank Capra

“People do come up to me quite a lot. I get called all of it. I rarely get called my name; it's usually "Hey, Dr. Edwards!" or "Algernon." The most common thing is, "You're the black doctor on that show!" I'll take any of it, because I've definitely been called much worse things.”

People Shows Names Black Common Doctors Come Up Hey Drs Common Things

Author:Andre Holland

“I'm always kind of contradictory to what people want and what's selling. But maybe I should care now because I have two or three more outlets. I have to be more adaptable color-wise to what people want. It's usually just black and pink, and that's it.”

People Want Should Kind Two Care Three Black Wise Color Selling Outlets Contradictory Adaptable

Author:Manolo Blahnik

“Black-and-white photography, which I was doing in the very early days, was essentially called art photography and usually consisted of landscapes by people like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. But photographs by people like Adams didn't interest me.”

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Author:William Eggleston

“A lot of my friends were mostly working in black-and-white-people like Lee Friedlander, Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, and others. We would exchange prints with each other, and they were always very supportive of what I was doing. What each of us was doing photographically was entirely different, but we were basically coming from the same place, sort of like a club.”

People Different Black White My Friends Clubs Print Black And White Supportive

Author:William Eggleston

“When you are trying to get a shot, you can't be pleasing everybody. And I tend to be sort of collaborative and a bit of a pleaser. And when I'm directing, people just sort of call me Black Hat Gabriela. Because suddenly they're like, "What happened to you?" Because I stop listening. And I feel strident. I feel rude. And I feel un-collaborative.”

People Feels Trying Bits Black Happened Listening Shots Hats Call Me Rude Pleasers Black Hats

Author:Liz W. Garcia

“The colors black and white are my uniform, to honor the working class. People like my parents, who were janitors and had to wear a uniform every day. It keeps me grounded.”

People Parent Black White Class Color Honor Black And White Uniforms Working Class Grounded Janitor Color Black

Author:Janelle Monae

“Black actors on the road, flying around the country working as poets. Those people are inspirations for millions of kids who write.”

People Writing Country Inspiration Kids Actors Black Millions Poet Flying

Author:Russell Simmons

“Nobody has to tell me that this is a serious business. I'm not fighting one man. I'm fighting a lot of men, showing a lot of 'em, here is one man they couldn't defeat, couldn't conquer. My mission is to bring freedom to 30m black people”

People Men Fighting Black Serious Defeat Missions Conquer Ems One Man Black People Serious Business

Author:Muhammad Ali

“That's just like America. It's made up of lots of different people. We're all different colors, different ages, we do different jobs -- but it takes all of us black people, white people, brown people, men and women, young and old, working in the factories, working in the fields, working in offices, working in stores -- it takes a lot of different kinds of people to get the job done for America.”

“When people nowadays say that Elvis was the first white guy to sound black, I have to shake my head; what can you do? At the time of 'That's My Desire' 1947 they were saying that I was the only white guy around who sounded black.”

People Firsts Desire Guy Sound Black White Shakes White Guys

Author:Frankie Laine

“I feel like I'm a designer, not a pop star. But if certain people think of me like a pop star, then the only thing I could do about this is dye my hair black and cut it short maybe.”

People Ifs Thinking Feels Certain Stars Black Cutting Hair Pops Designer Think Of Me Pop Stars

Author:Nicki Minaj

“Do not be naive. AIDS is not a curse from God to Africans or the black people. It is a tool to control them designed by some evil-minded scientists, but we may not know who particularly did it.”

People Knows May Evil Black Tools Scientist Aids Curse Black People Naive

Author:Wangari Maathai

“Your ancestors dragged these black people from their homes by force; and in the white man's quest for wealth and an easy life they have been ruthlessly suppressed and exploited, degraded into slavery. The modern prejudice against Negroes is the result of the desire to maintain this unworthy condition.”

Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

“I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren't many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.”

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Author:Jerry Garcia

“Elvis Presley's death deprives our country of a part of itself. He was unique, irreplaceable. More than twenty years ago, he burst upon the scene with an impact that was unprecedented and will probably never be equaled. His music and his personality, fusing the styles of white country and black rhythm and blues, permanently changed the face of American popular culture. His following was immense. And he was a symbol to people the world over of the vitality, rebelliousness and good humor of this country.”

“I can't tell Black people to fight a war that is Israel's war. What kind of leader will you be, or should I be, to allow these babies Black, white and brown, to fight Israel's war, because Zionists dominate the government of the United States of America and her banking system.”

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Author:Louis Farrakhan

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