Quotes with blacks

  • As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.
  • Ninety years after slavery, blacks were still segregated from whites. They still had separate drinking fountains, separate restrooms, separate neighborhoods, and separate schools. They still were expected to sit at the back of the bus.

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  • August Wilson As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.
    ― August Wilson
    American playwright (1945 - 2005)
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  • August Wilson Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.
    ― August Wilson
    American playwright (1945 - 2005)
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  • Bell Hooks 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
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich 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
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • John Betjeman Keep our Empire undismembered guide our Forces by Thy Hand, gallant blacks from far Jamaica, Honduras and Togoland; protect them Lord in all their fights, and even more, protect the whites.
    ― John Betjeman
    English poet, writer, and broadcaster (1906 - 1984)
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  • Benjamin Watson Ninety years after slavery, blacks were still segregated from whites. They still had separate drinking fountains, separate restrooms, separate neighborhoods, and separate schools. They still were expected to sit at the back of the bus.
    ― Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Anatole Rapoport One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.
    ― Anatole Rapoport
     
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  • Bell Hooks The ethic of liberal individualism has so deeply permeated the psyches of blacks... of all classes that we have little support for a political ethic of communalism that promotes the sharing of resources.
    ― Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Aberjhani The way out of the maze of whiteness and blackness that led inevitably, repeatedly, to violent conflict was through the simple recognition of and respect for blacks and whites as not two races but one: the human race.
    Source: The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois (2003)
    ― Aberjhani
    American historian, columnist and novelist (1957 - )
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  • Barbra Streisand 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
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Billy Williams As I look out there and see the culture of baseball, a lot of blacks and Latins, it's given me a lot of joy to know that Jackie started that. If Jackie hadn't come in '47, me and Ron Santo wouldn't have played in Double-A and all those years in the big leagues.
    ― Billy Williams
    American baseball player (1938 - )
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