- 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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somebody has always wanted me to speak as a voice of black America, but it has dawned on me that I can only speak for myself.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black youth, in general, have no understanding of our past. Young black people who don't know who Martin Luther King Jr. was, don't know nothin'.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
American music culture is black culture.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black people love Hispanics; Hispanics love blacks. We grew up with each other. We share a lot of the same stuff.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the end is endless. It's either a big black hole or a big white light or both together. But it's totally meaningless, because even if someone would explain it, I wouldn't understand it.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like doing business in a black city.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most black families went from the South to the city. My family went from the South to the city to the suburbs because they wanted their children to have the realization of the suburban lifestyle. What does it mean that that doesn't actually protect you?
- Extraordinarily
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our blackness and how to survive being black in America was something that our parents instilled in us extraordinarily well.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black lives are too easy to take in America because we don't want to question why people are so afraid of black and brown people to begin with. And that's what I want 'Strong Island' to do.
- Exert
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- Nov 07, 2020
White communities - and I exempt poor white communities from this - have power over their representation. White people have the ability to define themselves, to exert their agency in a way that they get to be believed. No one believes black people. No one. Until a white person vouches for them.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone in the street where I grew up was given the same message: You can be anything; you can do anything. That wasn't extraordinary; that was ordinary for us. My folks didn't believe in black exceptionalism. There's nothing exceptional about 'You can have that, too' - except when it comes to justice. You can't have that.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
People come up and say, 'Thank you' for showing a black family loving their masculine-presenting child and for undoing the myth of black people as being rabidly homophobic.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020