Browsing Topic Best Black Race Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it – whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, he is trash.

I want to hear the chantingAround a heathen fireOf a strange black race.

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.

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.