Browsing Topic Best Black America Quotes

I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

Their appetite is the same. Their motives are the same. It’s only their mannerisms and methods that differ.

We are the ones we have been waiting for.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.

Every Black filmmaker you love, has at least 10 projects that he can’t get made in Hollywood. Sequels that fans scream for, don’t get made because of the system in place. The world is missing out and it’s a shame cause the money is there 10 folds.

The [basketball] floor comes easy; I’ve been doing that for a long time. But what’s not easy is growing up black in America.

It is the white man who creates the Negro. But it is the negro who creates negritude.

We’ve all seen the knee of injustice on the neck of Black Americans.

When black America is on the move, America is on the move.

When is black America going to forgive white America for slavery?

I would like black kids to be completely empowered, to know that they are beautiful in their blackness, but in order to do that, I don’t have to make white kids feel bad for being white. So somehow, this is a conversation that has gone in the wrong direction.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.

It is not the destiny of Black America to repeat white America’s mistakes. But we will, if we mistake the trappings of success in a sick society for the signs of a meaningful life.

I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET. Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.

Leftist big-government policies have been disastrous for black America just as they were in the countries that most Hispanics emigrated from. But like the gambling addict who keeps gambling the more he loses, those addicted to government entitlements keep increasing the size of the government even as their situation worsens.

Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.

Black people have always been America’s wilderness in search of a promised land.

There ought to be a robust, uninhibited conversation in black America with different black ideological perspectives.

In the era of slavery, you could be a so-called Afro-Cuban one day and a so-called Black American the next day, or vice versa. I mean there was all this back and forth, and there was a lot of opposition in Black America to slavery in Cuba in particular, because slavery in Cuba lasted until the 1880s.

Obama was elected in a flourish of promise that many in the African-American community believed would help not only to symbolize African-American progress since the Civil War and Civil Rights Acts but that his presidency would result in doors opening in the halls of power as had never been seen before by black America.

Liberalism Has Nearly Destroyed Black America, And Now It’s Time For Black America To Return The Favor.

The Black church is extremely important in Black America. I think most Americans themselves believe in a divine power, in a god, and I’m sure that that number increases with Black people.

I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.

For black America needs a politics whose first mission isn’t the reinforcement of the idea of black America; and a discourse of race that isn’t centrally concerned with preserving the idea of race and racial unanimity. We need something we don’t yet have: a way of speaking about black poverty that doesn’t falsify the reality of black advancement; a way of speaking about black advancement that doesn’t distort the enduring realities of black poverty.

Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who I am?

If you really think back to the culture or just black America before rap music took off, New York could have been Paris.

Where is the raised voice of black America? Why are we mute?

In black America there’s such a thing as passing, the black people who are light skinned and they will pass for white.

About the state of black America, I’ve been working on that for many, many years. And [Donald Trump] said certain things in his early days about wanting to do something about it. We have a lot of violence in our neighborhoods now. We need education. And we need jobs. Is what I’m trying to say.

We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.

What is being black? It’s making the most of your life, not taking a single moment for granted. Taking something that’s seen as a struggle and making it work for you, or you’ll die inside. Not to say that my struggle is like the collective struggle of black America. But maybe my struggle is similar to one black dude’s.

The question of religion in black America is something filmmakers don’t want to touch.

I was adopted my black Americans, I feel that I’m a ‘Hybrid’. When I’m around Africans’I suddenly feel very black American. And when I’m around black Americans’I feel very North African. North Africa and black America are both the creators of Kola Boof.