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Quotes About Black

Black Consciousness therefore takes cognizance of the deliberateness of God's plan in creating Black people black.
~ Steven Biko
To be Christian is to be one of those whom God has chosen. God has chosen black people!
~ James H. Cone
Whose the spiritual people pon earth. The Black people. Dem a deal wit God. And God no let dem down.
~ Bob Marley
I was guided by Allah (God) to give a yardstick to the voting public, particularly Black people as to what will set that candidate apart from others.
~ Louis Farrakhan
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.
~ Wangari Maathai
It's not that George Bush doesn't care about black people, god made hurricanes, not people who can't swim.
~ Zach Braff
If I told you God was black, what would you think of that?
~ Ray Davies
When will the veil be lifted that casts so black a night over the universe? God of Israel, lift at last the gloom: For how long will you be hidden?
~ Jean Racine
There's nothing on this green earth that a liberal progressive fears more than a black American who wants a better life and a smaller government.
~ Allen West
The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.
~ Malcolm X
Insofar as we, critics of the black tradition, master our craft, we serve both to preserve our own traditions and to shape their direction. All great writers demand great critics.
~ Henry Louis Gates
If envy is red and doubt is black then happiness is brown. I looked from the little brown stone to the tiny brown freckle to her huge brown eyes.
~ Annabel Pitcher
Be black, shine, aim high.
~ Leontyne Price
First black president ever, and to be living while it happened - that's a good part of history. That's probably the biggest person I admire right now.
~ Meek Mill
The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.
~ Henry Louis Gates
Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.
~ Henry Louis Gates
You see, in recent history, the Democrat party has created the illusion that their agenda and their policies are what's best for black people.
~ Elbert Guillory
In order for us, black and white, to disenthrall ourselves from the harshest slavemaster, racism, we must disinter our buried history.... We are all the Pilgrim, setting out on this journey.
~ Studs Terkel
Jesus' birthday is commercialized, so of course, Black History Month is commercialized.
~ Jidenna
Soul is at home in the deep, shaded valleys. Heavy torpid flowers saturated with black grow there. The rivers flow like warm syrup. They empty into huge oceans of soul.
~ Dalai Lama
The wiping out of millions of homes took away Black and Brown wealth. It drove poverty, it drove unemployment, it drove people to food stamps.
~ Jesse Jackson
By dying I wanted to maintain my honor, and hide a flame so black from the daylight!
~ Jean Racine
Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in order to give account of the hope that is in him or her.
~ James H. Cone
I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
~ Yusef Komunyakaa