- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black Quotes
Black holes, bias, and belonging, all in one word.
This collection ranges from cosmic curiosity about black holes and possibility to a pointed observation about racial conditioning and who gets blamed for problems. For quotes on subtler, quieter qualities, see Mystery quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Purple
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- Nov 07, 2020
Steven Spielberg's 'The Color Purple' might as well have been about a bunch of dancing eggplants for all it has to say about black history.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The history of black people in Manhattan is a story of people getting pushed farther uptown as land acquires new uses and increases in value.
- Much
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- Nov 07, 2020
Manhattan was the capital of the twentieth century for black writers, artists, and intellectuals as much as it was for their white counterparts.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Harlem: The Unmaking of a Ghetto' is a surprise and a fresh way of looking at Harlem, connecting the black district with the architecture of its historical past.
- Existence
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- Nov 07, 2020
None of the black abolitionist newspapers, the first of which appeared in 1827, was in existence after the Civil War.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
After Reconstruction, black newspapers evolved from being a propaganda arm into a kind of opposition press, because even the friends of former slaves had their fears.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black America has always felt itself divided into two classes: the mucky-mucks and the folk.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
The demise of Reconstruction had made it hard for blacks to acquire capital or to pass on property to their children. As blacks were driven from all but the most limited spheres of business and political life, the prestige of the professional rose in the black community.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ellison was prominent on the lecture circuit even in the Black Aesthetic days of the Sixties when his defiantly pro-American and prickly-proud intellectual act met with some hostility.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some black people who have not heard me interviewed or read my book jump to conclusions and prejudge me... I've been called Uncle Tom. I've been called an Oreo.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of well meaning white liberals. And a lot of well meaning black liberals. But you know what? When all they do is sit around and preach to the choir it does absolutely no good. If you're not a racist it doesn't do any good for me to meet with you and sit around and talk about how bad racism is.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of the media says, 'oh, black musician converts X-number of Klansmen.' I never converted one. But over 200 have left that, the white supremacy movements, because I have been the impetus for that.
- Well
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've dealt with a lot of black supremacists as well as white supremacists, and supremacy of any kind is wrong, and I address both black and I address both white.
- Prejudice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was no stranger to racism. Having grown up a black person in the '60s and '70s, I knew that prejudice was common.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020