Black Owned Quotes

#1. A woman can plan. A woman thinks she needs a man for nothing in this world but soon realizes she is wrong. The same way every black- owned business has to acquire goods from a white distributor, women have to do business with men, be it professional or personal, to achieve too many of our goals.

Eric Jerome Dickey

#2. So many people hate me and love me for the exact same reasons. This is all the proof I need that my opinion about myself is the only opinion I should ever care about.

Dan Pearce

#3. The twenty-first-century successful black woman is brilliant and tenacious and not afraid to flex her intellectual, spiritual, or financial muscles. She has accomplished, earned, and owned more than black women of any other generation in American history.

Sophia Nelson

#4. When we'd had slaves, we'd purchased people's labor - not their bodies! We never thought we owned someone's arms, legs, feet, heart. How was that possible? How much does an arm cost? A leg? Feet? Hands? How

Daniel Black

#5. Great Granny Webster seemed to hate colours. Almost everything she owned was either black or dark brown.

Caroline Blackwood

#6. I rolled the second car that I ever owned, a Toyota 4 Runner. This was winter in Colorado, two weeks before the 2002 Olympic trials. I was driving in the outside lane, and my rear tire caught some black ice, and we totally turned sideways to the point where we were heading right toward the median.

Apolo Ohno

#7. A black ... gets a job with a white-owned company. He is the only black at the firm. He works hard, but he's fighting a losing battle against his genes.

David Duke

#8. The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.

Gerrit Smith

#9. They can kill the Kennedys. Why can't they make a cup of coffee that tastes good?

John Swartzwelder

#10. You notice patterns. White guests often are mortified - that word again - when they learn their ancestors owned slaves. But I've never had a black guest who was upset to learn about white ancestry that probably involved forced sexual relations.

Henry Louis Gates

#11. Our democracy is threatened whenever we take it for granted.

Barack Obama

#12. Can't change the meaning of the "N" word. There's no endearment, love, or fellowship in its use-- just ignorance and hate.

Taj Shotwell

#13. Many of the Jews who owned the homes, the apartments in the black community, we considered them bloodsuckers because they took from our community and built their community but didn't offer anything back to our community.

Louis Farrakhan