Black Quotes

Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.

I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.

There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.

I wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.

The black queen is the most powerful piece in the game. Know your worth, then add tax.

The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.

That’s how we do it in the black community; we give back to the people who made us who we are. We never forget that.

The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.

Hate is too big a burden to bear.

Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.