While the old spiritual ‘Slavery Chain Done Broke at Last’ was sung by blacks in the hours following the Appomattox surrender, racism sadly continues to be a crippling national scourge. – Douglas Brinkley
My dad was my hero when I was a young boy. And then it’s a toss-up between Han Solo, the New Zealand All Blacks Rugby team, and Marlon Brando. – Martin Henderson
Rap’s conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride. – David Foster Wallace
Our only hope for America is that every conservative takes upon him or herself the project of learning what American and conservative values are, coming to understand what leftism stands for, and learning how to make the case for those values to women, young people, blacks and Hispanics. – Dennis Prager
So I’m in the Republican Party for the same reason I was in the Democratic Party: to make sure blacks are included, along with everyone else. – Charles Evers
I grew up in a neighborhood with blacks and Puerto Ricans and Italians, the whole gamut, so conveying unity has always meant a lot to me. – Carmine Giovinazzo
It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV. – Flip Wilson
As a result of America’s efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in America are now the freest and richest black people anywhere on the face of the earth including all of the nations that are ruled by blacks. – David Horowitz
In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee. – David Dinkins
We all stand on the shoulders of our ancestors. We’re in a relay race, relying on the financial and human capital of our parents and grandparents. Blacks were shackled for the early part of that relay race, and although many of the fetters have come off, whites have developed a huge lead. – Nicholas Kristof
What does it mean to be too black for Hollywood? It’s self-explanatory. Hollywood has certain kinds of blacks that they like. – Paul Mooney
Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world. – Gore Vidal
I think the real understanding comes when we recognize our humanity in each other. That’s not just between blacks and whites. That’s between all religions as well. – Phylicia Rashad
On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family. – Eleanor Holmes Norton
Tiger had the advantage of high school, college, and a father who knew golf. I was self-taught. Blacks really won’t play golf in great numbers until some of these basketball and football stars buy some golf courses where blacks can play. – Charlie Sifford
No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another – I sang what I liked in the only voice I had. – Charley Pride
I don’t for a moment believe that women have suffered the same kind of injustices that blacks have – women have never been enslaved. But still, many of the psychological and economic problems are the same. – Eleanor Holmes Norton
Black people are inferior to Caucasians. Blacks constitute a totally distinct group; they overshadow the country with the germ… of evil. – David Wilmot
Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves. – Calvin Peete
After the Civil War, when blacks fought along whites to secure freedom for all, southern states enacted Black Codes, laws that restricted the civil rights and liberties of blacks. Central to the enforcement of these laws were the stiff penalties for blacks possessing firearms. – Niger Innis
Blacks on prime-time TV are only portrayed as comedians – and often in no better a light than ‘Amos & Andy.’ – Don Cornelius
The party of Lincoln should be reaching out to blacks, Hispanics gays and so forth and so on. – Michael Huffington
We’re criminalizing economic inability to stay out of the system. Women get penalized more than men for the same crime; blacks get penalized more than whites for the same crime. We need to bring out more into the light, because it’s not fair… I applaud Colin Kaepernick for speaking out. – Martina Navratilova
I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the farmers. I hoed cotton with them. I’m with the blacks, because we’re white trash. – Phil Robertson
I grew up in Los Angeles when the racial tensions between blacks and Mexicans were very high. Gang violence was very prevalent. – Miguel
When I was young, I was rather attractive, and I thought that I would be a leading lady. I always thought of myself as a dramatic actress, but of course the opportunities for blacks weren’t there at the time. – Maidie Norman
We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him. We gave him his first love, 96 percent of blacks voted for him in 2008. Yet today we are the number one in unemployment, with 16 percent of American blacks out of work. – Jesse Jackson
I have a great relationship with the blacks. I’ve always had a great relationship with the blacks. – Donald Trump Radio interview in Albany, 2011.
As a teenager, my blackness was also questioned by some of the life choices I made that weren’t considered to be ‘black’ choices. For example, joining the swim team when it is a known fact that ‘black folk don’t swim’; or choosing to become a vegetarian when blacks clearly love chicken. – Issa Rae