Black people quotes

◆ The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

- Ash Sweeney100

◆ Reckless capitalism kills black people.

- Mos Def99

◆ GIRL STOP TEXTING STOP REQUESTING AND YOU BETTER NOT BE OOVOOING OR EVEN GODDAMN SKYPING BECAUSE IF YOU ARE WE WILL BE FIGHTING ITS A BLADE IN MY PURSE AND ITS YOUR FACE I WILL BE SLICING

- 99

◆ I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminshes fear.

- Rosa Parks99

◆ I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.

- Muhammad Ali99

◆ Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise.

- Maya Angelou99

◆ Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.

- Arthur Ashe99

◆ Just like you can buy grades of silk, you can buy grades of justice.

- Ray Charles99

◆ The past is a ghost, the future a dream. All we ever have is now.

- Bill Cosby99

◆ There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution...

- Frederick Douglass99

◆ You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.

- Billie Holiday99

◆ Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.

- Quincy Jones99

◆ Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

- Barbara Jordan99

◆ Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.

- Dr Martin Luther King Jr99

◆ Hip-Hop isn't just music. It also a spiritual movement of blacks! You can't just call hip-hop a trend.

- Lauryn Hill99