Black Conservative Quotes

#1. I think one of the most threatening places to be in politics is a black conservative because there are so many liberals who want to continue to reinforce a stereotype that doesn't exist about America.

Tim Scott

#2. A black conservative is a black who dissents from the victimization explanation of black fate.

Shelby Steele

#3. I am an American. Black. Conservative. I don't use African-American, because I'm American, I'm black and I'm conservative. I don't like people trying to label me. African- American is socially acceptable for some people, but I am not some people.

Herman Cain

#4. I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant.

Esther Williams

#5. I am speaking English, correct? I ask because sometimes I speak another language without meaning to.

Ashlan Thomas

#6. For far too long we've allowed the other side to paint us as racist, as sexist, inhumane war mongers - well, today as a conservative black Republican and former solider, I'm here to set that record straight.

Allen West

#7. Often, the scripts that we write that foretell our own doom are completely contrary to the scripts that God has written for us.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#8. Even as someone who's labeled a conservative - I'm a Republican I'm black, I'm heading up this organization in the Reagan administration - I can say that conservatives don't exactly break their necks to tell blacks that they're welcome.

Clarence Thomas

#9. I am one of them.
I am also Rachel.
I am Risika

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

#10. If we relate to people believing that we can categorize them, we will neither identify nor nuture the parts, the vital parts, of the other that transcends category. The enabling relationship always assumes that the other is never fully knowable.

Irvin D. Yalom

#11. I have never been afraid to go a bit out there with what I am wearing on film. I tend to be a bit more conservative in real life, with mountains of black in my closet.

Jane Badler

#12. Approval isn't necessary. It's nice when you get it, but it's not going to stop us from being who we are. I mean, if I'd have listened to approval, I'd never have made it one day onstage. But to be criticized, if there's validity, as upset as you are, you can learn from it.

Jared Leto

#13. The number one problem in our world is alienation, rich versus poor, black versus white, labor versus management, conservative versus liberal, East versus West ... But Christ came to bring about reconciliation and peace.

Billy Graham

#14. The knowledge of the cross brings a conflict of interest between God who has become man and man who wishes to become God.

Jurgen Moltmann

#15. Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.

Kanye West

#16. The only place where we're not segregated in mass is in sports. You go to a football stadium or a basketball arena, and all of America is there: the wealthy, the poor, the black, white, Latino, conservative, liberal, and we all talk about sports.

Jason Whitlock

#17. There's a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black middle class are conservative. Many of those minorities can be persuaded to be members of the Republican Party.

Pete Du Pont

#18. As anyone who has tinnitus knows, it's not something that you can ignore, and you have to deal with it on a daily basis.

Martin McGuinness

#19. Can a book make such a difference? Can it change you utterly?

I know it can.

(First essay from The Book That Changed My Life, edited by Roxanne J. Coady & Joy Johannessen)

Dorothy Allison

#20. Homosexuality in hip-hop is an extension of homosexuality in the black community. The black community is very, very conservative when it comes to homosexuality, and I don't mean conservative in the good way, like we're saving money. I mean very intolerant.

Talib Kweli

#21. We're just people Jo he said quietly.
Yeah I suppose. People with fangs who drink blood live a long time and apparently do crafts. She shook her head.

Lynsay Sands

#22. I'm apolitical. Where all that Conservative business came along from, I don't know.

Cilla Black

#23. View life as a continuous learning experience.

Denis Waitley

#24. Don't be cool. Cool is conservative fear dressed in black.

Bruce Mau

#25. In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#26. Civil rights for all Americans, black, white, red, yellow, the rich, poor, young, old, gay, straight, et cetera, is not a liberal or a conservative value. It's an American value that I would think that we pretty much all agree on.

Jerry Falwell

#27. While, as I recall, conservative little boys practice quick draw with their cap guns while playing cowboys and Indians, apparently liberal little boys practice how fast they can throw up their hands to surrender to the guys in the black hats.

Tony Blankley