316 Quotes About Blacks

The apocalypse sounds like this-- black men breaking in to steal back the thing once stole from them.

There are gods of fertility, corn, childbirth, & police brutality--this last is offered praise & sacrifice near weekly & still cannot be sated

A whole people's tumble into raw, untested century began with one man, penning his serpentine sojourn up from slavery--I am not quite sure of the exact place or exact date of my birth, but ... I must have been born somewhere and at some time. He began as another baby shoved directly into the wrong air.

Maybe you'll be better treated next time.""Not as long as I am black," said Simple."You look at everything, I regret to say, in terms of black and white.""So does the Law," said Simple.

There's dust, a scratch in a groove, and here we are repeating the same two seconds of "Strange Fruit.

The State Lay in wait Attica Attack Troopswearing maskscarrying gas cannistersand proud to be whiteproud to be doingwhat everyone canfor The Man

Z is for zealotry: national pride like an infinite zipline, hyperdrive, the fastest way down.

That is no way to get Justice." "That is the way the Allies got it--breaking up Germany, breaking up Hiroshima, and everything in sight. But these white folks are more scared of Negroes in the U.S.A. than they ever was of Hitler....

They could not understand that there is some few people in the world who do good without being asked. It were a hot day, I were a little boy, and ice-cream cones are always good. And that man just looked at me and thought I would like one--which I did. That is one reason why I do not hate all white folks today because some white folks will do good without being asked or hauled up before the Supreme Court to have a law promulgated against them.