Quotes about Black
How can we teach our children to respect Black women if Black women don't respect Black women?
— Bishop TD Jakes
I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.
— Malcolm X
Is the Black Church Dead? Or, Can These Bones Live?
— Thabiti M. Anyabwile
He [Mr. Snagsby] is a mild, bald, timid man with a shining head and a scrubby clump of black hair sticking out at the back. He tends to meekness and obesity.
— Charles Dickens
I do think that it is impossible to do Christian theology with integrity in America without asking the question, What has the gospel to do with the black struggle for liberation?
— James H. Cone
Luke's Gospel was clear: Jesus's ministry was essentially liberation on behalf of the poor and the oppressed. I didn't need a doctorate in theology to know that liberation defined the heart of Jesus's ministry. Black people had been preaching and singing about it for centuries.
— James H. Cone
For most evangelicals, revelation was found in the inerrant scriptures, and one need not look elsewhere. I knew in my gut that God's revelation was found among poor black people.
— James H. Cone
How to reconcile the gospel message of liberation with the reality of black oppression.
— James H. Cone
In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men.
— Audre Lorde
Real men are almost nowhere to be found in the black community; fatherlessness is the norm, and godlessness has taken over black churches.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
My interest as an artist is to illuminate the lives of black folks. I definitely am focused on films that illustrate all that we are and all our nuance and all our complicated beauty and mess, and when you're telling those stories, you gotta have black actors.
— Ava DuVernay
The long black nights, when the moon hides her face, when the stars are afraid, are not so black. The silence that dwells in the forest is not so black. There is nothing in the world so black as thy hair.
— Oscar Wilde