Quotes for All
Generally, the arguments for same-sex marriage go along these lines: ‘I have a civil right.’ What the homosexual movement wants to do is to hitch their agenda to the civil rights movement, but I point out that this is illegitimate for a number of reasons. Number one, no black person has ever left his black-ness … Read more
I also know that I have represented for us a certain kind of journalist and for me over the years when an older Black person comes and tells me how proud they are of me and the way I represent us on television, or when a younger person says to me, ‘Hey Mr. Gordon, I … Read more
One of the big mistakes they made in Europe is that the circumstances in which you most frequently read or hear the word \”race\” or \”racism\” in Europe applies to Muslims. Which is not a race. It is a religion. You can convert to this. You cannot convert your race. I could become a Muslim. … Read more
When you get called the n-word, as a black person you can do anything. It’s like getting a gold star in Super Mario Brothers and junk. I hear the music when I hear the n-word. I get right into it; I get really into it. You can do anything. You could be in a fancy … Read more
I didn’t realize, when I decided to be a comic, that a black person had never been allowed to stand flat-footed in America and talk to white folks. It never happened before. Dick Gregory
I don’t judge people by their sexual orientation or the color of their skin, so I find it really hard to identify someone by saying that they’re a gay person or a black person or a Jewish person. Diana Ross
The greatest hope most Americans – including Republicans – had when Barack Obama was elected president was that the election of a black person as the country’s president would reduce, if not come close to eliminating, the racial tensions that have plagued America for generations. Dennis Prager
I consider myself a human being, a Christian, a father, a husband, so many things, before being a black person. David Oyelowo
I love that as a black person I’ve experienced not being a minority. I think that’s helped me to combat the minority mentality people can have here, which can stop them scaling the heights. David Oyelowo
Al Gore’s Negro tolerance level has never been too high. I’ve never known him to have more than one black person around him at any given time. Cynthia McKinney