KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Quotes for topic: Black


Share this page on

Showing 981-990 of 1650 quotes in the topic Black

Young people are constantly absorbing - through media, textbooks, and policy - the myths of American exceptionalism; for black children, this means that what they are taught in class does not match the world that they navigate daily.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Absorb American Black Children Class Constantly Daily Does Match Means Media Myths Navigate People Policy Taught Textbooks Through World Young Young People

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Supporting black professional athletes was taken seriously in my home.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Athletes Black Home Professional Seriously Supporting Taken

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


There is a solidarity that black people can find in celebrating the athletic success of our own, especially in sports where our existence is sparse.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Athletic Black Celebrating Existence Find Our Own People Solidarity Sports Success Where

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The U.S. prison system, over all, disproportionately affects black and brown people, but people of color are overrepresented to a greater degree in private prisons.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Affects Black Brown Color Degree Greater Over People Prison Prisons Private System

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


When the residue of oppression and fear are compounded over time, when the historical precedents of policing and discrimination manifest themselves over and over again, the very act of waking up to a world complicit in your distress can feel like a herculean task. But black people are human beings, just like everyone else.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Act Again Beings Black Discrimination Distress Else Everyone Everyone Else Fear Feel Historical Human Human Beings Just Like Manifest Oppression Over People Policing Task Themselves Time Up Very Waking Waking Up World Your

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Growing up in New Orleans, I was always the only black kid, or one of two, on the school soccer team. While I was always conscious of this status, what took precedent was my unfettered love of the game.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Always Black Conscious Game Growing Growing Up Kid Love New New Orleans Only Orleans Precedent School Soccer Status Team Took Two Up While

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


To operate with the aspiration of color-blindness in a country whose central operating mechanism for centuries has been race belies the logic of race-neutral public policy. Public policy must account for the historic and intentional pillaging of resources experienced by black Americans.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Account American Aspiration Been Black Black Americans Central Centuries Country Experienced Historic Intentional Logic Mechanism Must Operate Operating Policy Public Public Policy Race Resources Whose

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


While violence is part of what it means to be part of the black diaspora in the United States, that is not all it means to be black.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Black Means Part States United United States Violence While

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I still see the world as a place of bitter irony and black humour, failed hopes, dashed plans. I hope to make my work sparer, to outgrow my desire to show off.

~Clive Sinclair

Topics: Bitter Black Dashed Desire Failed Hope Hopes Humour Irony Make Off Outgrow Place Plans See Show Show Off Still Work World

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Deadwood lies at the northern tip of the Black Hills, where the land is ancient and rubbed smooth by time. The Black Hills are more rugged at their southern extremity, where bare granite forms pinnacles and spires.

~Clive Sinclair

Topics: Ancient Bare Black Deadwood Extremity Forms Granite Hills Land Lies More Northern Rugged Smooth Southern Time Tip Where

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Popular Authors

Samuel Adams Jane Austen Calvin Coolidge Galileo Galilei Katharine Hepburn Michelle Obama Kanye West Serena Williams

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1981 - Beyonce Knowles

1824 - Phoebe Cary

1837 - Zhang Zhidong

1846 - Daniel Burnham

1891 - Fritz Todt

1896 - Antonin Artaud

1905 - Mary Renault

1908 - Edward Dmytryk

1908 - Richard Wright

1913 - Mickey Cohen

Birthdays on September 4th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Anger Experience Government Graduation Imagination Life Moving On War