KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Quotes for topic: Blacks


Share this page on

Showing 11-20 of 93 quotes in the topic Blacks

Blacks in America want to forget about slavery - the stigma, the shame. If you can't be who you are, who can you be? How can you know what to do? We have our history. We have our book, and that is the blues.

~August Wilson

Topics: About America Blacks Blues Book Forget History How Know Our Shame Slavery Stigma Want Who You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The blues are important primarily because they contain the cultural expression and the cultural response to blacks in America and to the situation that they find themselves in. And contained in the blues is a philosophical system at work. And as part of the oral tradition, this is a way of passing along information.

~August Wilson

Topics: Along America Because Blacks Blues Contain Contained Cultural Expression Find Important Information Oral Part Passing Philosophical Primarily Response Situation System Themselves Tradition Way Work

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Part of what our problem as blacks in America is that we don't claim that. Partly, you see, because of the linguistic environment in which we live.

~August Wilson

Topics: America Because Blacks Claim Environment Linguistic Live Our Part Partly Problem See Which You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I think the blues is the best literature that we as blacks have created since we've been here. I call it our 'sacred book.' What I've attempted to do is to mine that field, to mine those cultural ideas and attitudes and give them to my characters.

~August Wilson

Topics: Attempted Attitudes Been Best Blacks Blues Book Call Characters Created Cultural Field Give Here Ideas Literature Mine Our Sacred Since Them Think Those I Think

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The most valuable blacks are those in prison, those who have the warrior spirit, who had a sense of being African. They got for their women and children what they needed when all other avenues were closed to them.

~August Wilson

Topics: African Avenues Being Blacks Children Closed Got Had Most Needed Other Prison Sense Spirit Them Those Valuable Warrior Were Who Women Women And Children

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Martin Luther King fought for blacks, and democratic whites were with him.

~Ayman Odeh

Topics: Blacks Democratic Fought Him King Luther Martin Martin Luther Martin Luther King Were Whites

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.

~Barbara Ehrenreich

Topics: Black Blacks Clear Compared Evidence Fact In Fact Intellectual Only Percent Reagan Retire Ronald Reagan Superiority Voted Whites

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.

~Barbra Streisand

Topics: Arrogance Blacks Elderly Employing Exercise Family Family Ties Fraud Intimidation Jews Minorities Other Presidency President Republican Stole Tactics Thousands Through Ties Voter Voter Fraud Who

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer.

~Bell Hooks

Topics: Behave Black Blacks Disturbed Identify Only Read Students Though White Women Writer

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Blacks who lack a proper killing rage are merely victims.

~Bell Hooks

Topics: Blacks Lack Merely Proper Rage Victims Who

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Popular Authors

Jimmy Buffett Charlie Chaplin Ellen Degeneres Alexander Hamilton Marilyn Monroe Terry Pratchett John D. Rockefeller Bell Hooks

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1935 - Dalai Lama

1946 - George W. Bush

1979 - Kevin Hart

1736 - Daniel Morgan

1747 - John Paul Jones

1875 - Roger Babson

1886 - Marc Bloch

1898 - Hanns Eisler

1907 - Frida Kahlo

1917 - Arthur Lydiard

Birthdays on July 6th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Art Environmental Good Health Life Movies Thankful Women