Black People Quotes

“I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“For the multiculturalist, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are prohibited, Italians and Irish get a little respect, blacks are good, native Americans are even better. The further away we go, the more they deserve respect. This is a kind of inverted, patronising respect that puts everyone at a distance.”
― Slavoj Žižek

“At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.”
― Carter G. Woodson

“I understand we all have our differences. But while learning about history I've read about white people coming together, Jews coming together, Spanish coming together, different cultures and religions understanding and coming together despite their differences. Slavery was never something that shocked me. What shocks me is how black people have not yet overcome the odds and we're such strong smart people. Why we can't just stand together?”
― Jonathan Anthony Burkett

“In the future, as in the present, as in the past, black people will build many new worlds.

This is true. I will make it so. And you will help me.”
― N.K. Jemisin

“Every student of political science, every student of political economy, every student of economics knows that the race can only be saved through a solid industrial foundation; that the race can only be saved through political independence. Take away industry from a race, take away political freedom from a race and you have a slave race.”
― Marcus Garvey, Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey

“this is the conversation I’ve been having since the 2016 election ended and liberals and progressives have been scrambling to figure out what went wrong. What was missing from the left’s message that left so many people unenthusiastic about supporting a Democratic candidate, especially against Donald Trump? So far, a large group of people (mostly white men paid to pontificate on politics and current events) seem to have landed on this: we, the broad and varied group of Democrats, Socialists, and Independents known as ‘the left,’ focused on ‘identity politics’ too much. We focused on the needs of black people, trans people, women, Latinx people. All this specialized focus divided people and left out working-class white men. That is the argument, anyways.”
― Ijeoma Oluo

“Look at the rainbow, it is made up of different colors, yet they do not split, because they know how beautiful they are when they stick together.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“We are a beautiful people. Even the way we face and overcome challenges is beautiful. Our beauty deserves to be elevated and celebrated.”
― D.B. Mays, Black Lives, Lines, and Lyrics

“have you ever
heard
a black woman weep over her skinmurdered child.
it is the splitting of atoms.
it is billions
of
voices screaming their children’s names
through
her death wail.

–– trayvon martin ii”
― Nayyirah Waheed, Salt

“Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself, and that is what has happened to the American Negro. Something within has reminded him of his birthright of freedom, and something without has reminded him that it can be gained.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail

“I think all black people who smile are beautiful
You know what it took to get them there?”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

“We live in a world where we grow in dispersion and unite in rivalry.”
― Goitsemang Mvula

“Lot of Black folks, we talk about bein’ invisible, you know—white people, they can look right through you, like you ain’t even there. I judo that shit, right? I make it work for me. I’m like a ninja, I vanish. Ali said float like a butterfly. One minute I’m there, the next, I ain’t. Ain’t nothing but burnt rubber and a little bit of Forever Red in the air.”
― S.A. Hunt, Burn the Dark

“Elegy to Black Panther"

Yibambe, Mfalme, yibambe on your crossing to the ancestral land
Where we imagine the Infinity Gauntlet sitting safely upon your taloned hand.
Rest in power, Mfalme, sleep peacefully, for your earthly battles are won;
The King of Wakanda forever, our most esteemed, Native son.”
― D.B. Mays, Black Lives, Lines, and Lyrics

“Blacktivitiy"

Bespattered with brilliant stars shining bright
And suspended over the splendid, sable sea.
Though all His works are wondrous beauties,
God’s greatest paintings are of you and me.”
― D.B. Mays, Black Lives, Lines, and Lyrics

“You are preaching black conscious now ?
Where was your black conscious, when you raped and murdered another black person.
Where was your black conscious, when you abused and assaulted another black person.
Where was your black conscious, when you lied and accused another black person.
Where was your black conscious when you shamelessly stole and looted money from black people .
Where was your black conscious, when you deceived and manipulated black people.
When your actions are being questioned. You say they are targeting you,
meanwhile you are the one who is targeting black people. To break , extort and to enslave them.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“It is so sad, that poor people are not fighting for solutions , but are fighting the opposition. Every time you try to point them the problem and a solution. They ignore you and chose to ask you on which side are you on . Not knowing that we should be divided to be conquered by the enemy.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Most racism is pushed through media houses. Check the heading, wording and pictures they use, even the cartoons.
Infect, I am starting to think. There is no media that likes black people or people of color. They might downplay it and say it is click bait, but how messed up are you . To use racism as click bait, unless you are racists yourself and see nothing wrong about it.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“I might look and smell smokeless now, but I’ve been burned beyond the surface.”
― Zara Hairston, It Came 2 Pass: Book 1, In the Beginning

“Our endurance and suffering made us stronger than they can imagine.
We became so strong that it takes only one of our own to destroy us or to end us.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Black art is so divine.”
― Robin S. Baker

“And just as some conceptualize racism as an inherent property of all white people, there are those who view trauma as a collective and hereditary condition shared by all members of an historically victimized group.”
― Bradley Campbell, The Rise of Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars

“To my African brother and sisters.
If you manage to go overseas or to other countries.
When you get there .Please don’t ruin it for other Africans .
Don’t say or do things that will make other Africans not be allowed .
Don’t be a curse to other Africans and don’t let other African be cursed because of you.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Our biggest oppressor is our mind. There results of it are seen on black on black hate . Look how black people treat other black people when they have power or in higher positions . Look at how poor black look at those successful black people. They wish and pray for their downfall. They want to destroy everything good they have. We are a jealousy nation. The jealousy we have for each other is what started witchcraft in the olden days. Today we still using witchcraft in a modern way by using technology , internet and Social media instead of using traditional herbs. We use technology , internet and Social media to kill each other and to destroy one another. To bully and humiliate one another. Until we change our mentality. We will forever be slaved by poverty. We will forever be slaved by our mind and thinking even thou constitutionally we are free.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Many black people in the UK are vitamin D deficient.”
― Steven Magee

“You can’t host or show some black people good time without regretting, Because the same people you are showing good time. You are making sure they are enjoying themselves and are having time of their life. Are the very same people that will steal from you. Will sabotage you. Will destroy your property or items. Will try to find something that will destroy you or your career or bag. Sharing your success or space with a jealous person. Is the same as playing with fire. You can be burned anytime or every time.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Acknowledging that my skin was, in fact, Cocoa as it is, would have destroyed their narrative about who I really was. Therefore they had to convince everyone (but mostly themselves) that my skin colour was black, which is obviously not. They wanted to lessen the value of my skin, my people, and my origins.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“There is a thin line between poetry and word salad.”
― Richard Carl Evans, Prosopography In Blue

“Man, people don' need no monster to make 'em do evil-hearted shit. All it take is a brown face, or somebody wearin' old tore-up clothes.”
― N.K. Jemisin, How Long 'til Black Future Month?