Black Peoples Sayings

#1. I'm eternally grateful to {our birth mother}, but wish I had never needed her. It's a loaded friendship, a complex connection.

Jana Wolff

#2. We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue versus armed contradiction and bloodshed.

Nursultan Nazarbayev

#3. Disobedience is a sure recipe for disaster, picking up the pieces is even harder

Kudakwashe Mazendame

#4. In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.

William James

#5. He used to call her Poppens out of fun.

James Joyce

#6. Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.

Oliver Tambo

#7. Friends are relatives you make for yourself.

Eustache Deschamps

#8. Why can't peace be a single overriding common purpose: why do we wait for a crisis to pull us together? Let's pull together for peace.

Rita Mae Brown

#9. If your power is decreasing then you have to do something about it right away.

Frederick Lenz

#10. In my heart and mind, I know I can hit anybody. I'm always relaxed. It's hard to explain. It's like playing with my kids. It feels natural.

Albert Pujols

#11. The pearl whose possession separates man from beast, the pearl which is the rarest find - the best among virtues - is forgiveness.

Kedar Joshi

#12. At the local coffee-shop, hunched in one of the secretive, high-backed booths with hundreds of peoples' names gouged into the wood, we drank cup after cup of black coffee and talked frankly about sex.

Sylvia Plath

#13. "I was born in the US and l have lived in Mexico since 1946. I believe that all these states of being have influenced my work and made it what you see today. I am inspired by Black people and Mexican people, my two peoples. My art speaks for both my peoples" ~ Elizabeth Catlett

Melanie Anne Herzog

#14. In my recent travels into African countries and others, I was impressed by the importance of having a working unity among all peoples, black as well as white.

Malcolm X

#15. To actually be allowed to be beautiful is a total first for me.

Kristen Johnston

#16. You don't have to be white to be white, you just have to be rich.

Christian Lander

#17. Some of these types, like the Persians and Ottoman Turks, are largely white; others, like the southern Indians and Yemenite Arabs, are largely black; while still others, like the Himalayan and Central Asian peoples, have much yellow blood.

T. Lothrop Stoddard

#18. There was no means by which I might know, and so I chose the center opening as being as likely to lead me in the right direction as another. Here

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#19. The black church often has reinforced certain self images that are damaging to black peoples' beauty, black peoples' confidence.

Cornel West