1,474 Quotes About Black

My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My white father and black mother.

We're still trying to get to the bottom of it. In these situations, it's rarely black and white, and what's first reported usually isn't what it is.

Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.

You know, I'm the 1st black solo MC from Detroit. I didn't do the 50 Cent sales but hey... I got a long career, I'm still young and I'm trying to bring really good music.

If he (Lawson) is saying they would do the same thing over again, is he saying the same woman who died on the ramp because she couldn't get over the bridge, is he saying he would let that woman die again? ... I don't think he's thinking that. I think he's talking political. He's just trying to make white folks in Gretna think he's protecting them from all those poor black people from New Orleans.

I wanna talk to the black men in here, you know what I mean? Black men in here that are coming up in the hood, coming up in the struggle: We're killing each other, dawg. You feel me? You know? And it's about nothing, it's about nothing. Nothing.

I want to talk to the black men living in the hood. ... We're killing each other, and it's about nothing.

I want to talk to the black men in here that's coming up in the hood, coming up in the struggle.

Our coaches taught us that, as young black men, it's not enough to be good. If you're not better than, you're not going to get the shot, ... Not on the court, not in life.