“I had that upbringing. Of watching 'Bonanza,' watching 'Hee Haw,' which both black and white would watch. I rode horses. I did gun spinning as a kid. I do these things.” KidsBlackWhiteWatchesGunHorseBlack And WhiteSpinningUpbringingHee Haw Author:Jamie Foxx
“White people's fear of Black people with guns will never cease to amaze me. Probably it's because they think about what they would do were they in our place. Especially the police, who have done so much dirt to Black people - their guilty conscience tells them to be afraid. When Black people seriously organize and take up arms to fight for our liberation, there will be a lot of white people who will drop dead from no other reason than their own guilt and fear.” PeopleThinkingReasonDoneFightingBlackWhiteArmsGunConsciencePoliceGuiltCeaseGuiltyLiberationBlack PeopleDirtOrganizeGuilty Conscience Author:Assata Shakur
“My daddy was a carpenter that worked with the Jones boys, who are the most notorious in America. The black gangsters, you know, they were no joke. And he was their master carpenter. He used to build their homes, and all I saw when I was 11 years old were dead bodies and tommy guns and stogies, and backrooms, you know, Drexel Wine and Liquor, with the big piles of money underneath.” KnowsYearsHomeBodyBigsAmericaUsedBlackBoysSawsMastersJokesGunWineDaddyLiquorGangstersCarpenterNotorious Author:Quincy Jones
“You know why Guns n' Roses aren't a good band? Because no black people listen to them.” PeopleKnowsBlackBandGunRoseBlack PeopleGuns N RosesGood Bands Author:Anton Newcombe
“The imperialistic or capitalistic system occupies areas. It occupies Vietnam now. They occupy them by sending soldiers there, by sending policeman there. The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism. The gun in the establishment's hand makes the establishment secure in its exploitation.” WarHandsBlackMilitaryArmsRacismGunAreasPoliceSoldierActivismSecureRacistVietnamEstablishmentExploitationPolicemen Author:Huey Newton
“the large black slugs ... come out at dusk. Enormous slugs. As big as crocodiles. So huge we need a gun to shoot them. And by the end of the summer, if they go on growing, we shall have to go out in pairs together for protection.” IfsNeedsEndsBigsTogetherBlackGrowingHugeGoes OnSummerGunProtectionEnormousPairsGardeningExaggerationDuskCrocodilesSlugsEnd Of Summer Author:Nan Fairbrother
“The philosophy of love and peace strangely overlooked who was in possession of the guns. There had been love and peace for some time on the continent of Africa because for all this time black men had been captivated by the doctrines of Christianity. It took them centuries to realize its contradictions. ... perhaps there was no greater crime as yet than all the lies Western civilization had told in the name of Jesus Christ.” MenPhilosophyLyingReligionJesusNamesBlackChristRealizingChristianityGreaterCenturyCrimeCivilizationGunJesus ChristWesternPossessionDoctrineContradictionContinentsOverlookedWestern CivilizationPeace And LoveCaptivatedPhilosophy Love Author:Bessie Head
“For black Americans, we know that gun control... sprouts from racist soil - be it after the or during the infamous Dred Scott case where black mans humanity was not recognized.” KnowsHumanityBlackCasesGunSoilRacistGun ControlSproutsInfamousNiger Author:Niger Innis
“While, as I recall, conservative little boys practice quick draw with their cap guns while playing cowboys and Indians, apparently liberal little boys practice how fast they can throw up their hands to surrender to the guys in the black hats.” LittlesHandsGuyBlackBoysPracticeDrawsGunConservativeSurrenderHatsRecallsCowboyCapsLittle BoysBlack Hats Author:Tony Blankley
“You have a 45mm automatic pistol on your lap, and I have a 35mm camera on my lap, and my weapon is just as powerful as yours. (To Black Panther militant Eldridge Cleaver)” BlackPowerfulPhotographyWeaponsGunCamerasAfrican AmericanLapMilitantPistolsHandgunsPanthersCameramanBlack PantherCleaver Author:Gordon Parks
“Homicide, often involving guns, is a disease that is the leading cause of death for young black men, and the second-leading cause of death for all people aged fifteen to twenty-four. That makes it the leading health issue, particularly when guns are used in combination with drugs and alcohol. And the statistics show that is most often the case.” PeopleMenShowsYoungUsedCausesBlackCasesIssuesFourDrugDiseaseGunTwentiesAlcoholCombinationStatisticsFifteenInvolvingDrugs And AlcoholHomicideHealth IssuesLeading Causes Author:Joycelyn Elders
“When black men started bearing arms, these people who we think of as being pro-gun are saying, 'We ought to change this law.” PeopleThinkingMenLawBlackArmsOughtGunBearing ArmsPro Gun Author:Stanley Nelson Jr.
“Drugs bring in guns. They bring in all these black-on-black crimes.” BlackCrimeDrugGun Author:Snoop Dogg
“In 1990, when we started the Black Community Crusade for Children, we were always talking about all children, but we paid particular attention to children who were not white, who were poor, who were disabled, and who were the most vulnerable.Parents didn't think their children would live to adulthood, and the children didn't think they were going to live to adulthood. That's when we started our first gun-violence campaign. We've lost 17 times more young black people to gun violence since 1968 than we lost in all the lynching in slavery.” PeopleThinkingFirstsChildrenYoungLostParentBlackCommunityWhitePoorAttentionTalkingViolenceParticularGunPaidSlaveryCampaignsVulnerableBlack PeopleAdulthoodDisabledCrusadesGun ViolenceLynchingBlack Community Author:Marian Wright Edelman
“Guns started flying off store shelves just as soon as the black Democrat moved into the White House.” HouseBlackWhiteGunMovedDemocratStoresFlyingWhite HouseShelves Author:Mike Cooley
“Black people beating whites when a thug got shot holding a gun by a black officer haha (expletive) cracks me up! Keep kneeling for the anthem!” PeopleBlackGunShotsCracksOfficersBlack PeopleThugAnthemHahaKneelingExpletives Author:Steve Clevenger
“If there's one thing I've learned in the last 18+ years of interacting with over 60,000 people during my vegan lecture tour, it's that everyone is the same, whether they are Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, atheist, Republican, Democrat, independent, socialist, fascist, black, white, Asian, Latino, Native, pro-life, pro-choice, pro-gun or anti-gun.” PeopleIfsYearsChristianLastsChoicesBlackWhiteOne ThingRepublicanGunIndependentDemocratAtheistBuddhistI've LearnedNativeVeganSocialistAsianLecturesLatinoFascistsPro LifeInteractingPro GunThings I've LearnedBlack WhiteAnti Gun Author:Gary Yourofsky
“Furthermore, the financial and social investment in prisons means that black and brown youth become, essentially, fodder for the machinery of capitalized incarceration. The steady supply of guns in the U.S. makes an already untenable situation even more dangerous, and all of us must raise our voices, write to Congress, hit the streets in protest, attend budget meetings of local municipalities - all to state our opposition to such criminal procedures and practices for our youth.” WritingMeanBlackSituationDangerousYouthGunPrisonMeetingsInvestmentFinancialProtestSteadyIncarceration Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“The vast majority of the guns in the U.S. are sold to white people who live in the suburbs or the country. When we fantasize about being mugged or home invaded, what's the image of the perpetrator in our heads? Is it the freckled-face kid from down the street - or is it someone who is, if not black, at least poor?” PeopleIfsCountryHomeKidsFacesBlackWhitePoorStreetsGunMajoritySuburbsPerpetrators Author:Michael Moore
“If I wanted to develop a scenario to destroy America, I would do what the Republicans are doing. Take the brightest and best young black men off the streets, put them in jail, make them meaner than hell for 8 or 10 years and then turn them lose in a society where there are plenty of guns for them to play with.” IfsMenYearsPlayWantedAmericaYoungTurnsBlackLosesHellStreetsRepublicanGunPlentyJailScenarios Author:Andrew Young
“I grew up as an artist. Science fiction allows for design and creatures and guns and all the stuff that I like as well. So I think most of the films I make, I'm sure, will be in that category. But I can also see myself making a film like 'Black Hawk Down,' and I could also totally do horror.” ThinkingWellsI CanFilmArtistStuffBlackFictionDesignGrewHorrorCreaturesGrew UpGunDown AndScience FictionCategoriesHawksBlack Hawk Down Author:Neill Blomkamp
“A Panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots into the air. "Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife annual and tosses it over his shoulder. "I'm a Panda," he says, at the door. "Look it up." The waiter turns to the relevant entry, and, sure enough, finds an explanation. Panda. Large black and white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.” LooksTwoEnoughOrderTurnsAsksBlackWhiteWalksFireDoorsAirProduceBearsDrawsGunShotsChinaShouldersExplanationConfusedNativeRelevantBlack And WhiteSandwichesWildlifeExitEntryAnnualsTossWaiterMammalsCafesPandas Author:Lynne Truss
“Kazuhiko could have taken his gun and aimed it at the person behind them. But Sakura wouldn't want that. What she wanted was to leave this world quietly before they got sucked into this horrible massacre. Nothing was more important to him than her. There was no room for compromise. If this were what her trembling soul wanted, then he would follow her. Had he been more eloquent he might have described his feelings as something like, "I'm going to die for her honor." Their two bodies danced in the air beyond the cliff, their hands still clasped together, the black sea under them.” IfsWorldWantPersonsStillsTwoImportantSoulFeelingsBodyHandsMightWantedTogetherDiesBlackRoomsBehindsTakenAirSeaThis WorldHonorGunHorribleCompromiseCliffsTremblingEloquentMassacres Author:Koushun Takami
“So I'm guessing you're Seven and Ten; What can you do?" I say as I find our rifles in the sand and hand each of them a gun. "You can call me Marina," the girl with the brown hair says. "And I can breathe under water and see in the dark and heal the sick and wounded. And I have telekinesis." Call me Ella, I hear ten say in my head. Aside from my telepathy, I can change ages. "Awesome. I'm four, that nut job with the long black hair is nine and the beast is my chimaera, Bernie Kosar.” LongI CanHandsAgeJobsGirlBlackWaterDarkFourHairTenGunSickSevenBreatheNineHealBeastBrownSandCall MeNutsWoundedRiflesGuessingTelepathyBlack HairBrown HairLong Black Hair Author:Pittacus Lore
“White man makes guns? No problem. Black rapper says "gun"? Congressional hearing.” MenProblemFunnyBlackWhiteGunHearingRapperWhite ManNo Problem Author:Chris Rock