Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1-20] of 141 Black quotesBlack QuotesBlack Next 20 quotes Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.~ African Proverb The man who views the world at 50 the same way he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.~ Mohammed Ali The man who has no imagination has no wings.~ Mohammed Ali The one who throws the stone forgets; the one who is hit remembers forever.~ Angolan Proverb True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others, at whatever cost.~ Arthur Ashe I promise you a police car on every sidewalk.~ Mayor Marion Barry If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very, very low crime rate.~ Mayor Marion Barry What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?~ Mayor Marion Barry I am making this trip to Africa because Washington is an international city, just like Tokyo, Nigeria or Israel. As mayor, I am an international symbol. Can you deny that to Africa?~ Mayor Marion Barry The contagious people of Washington have stood firm against diversity during this long period of increment weather.~ Mayor Marion Barry We, Negro Americans, sing with all loyal Americans: My country 'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, Land of the Pilgrims' pride From every mountainside Let freedom ring! That's exactly what we mean -- from every mountain side, let freedom ring. Not only from the Green Mountains and White Mountains of Vermont and New Hampshire; not only from the Catskills of New York; but from the Ozarks in Arkansas, from the Stone Mountain in Georgia, from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia -- let it ring not only for the minorities of the United States, but for the disinherited of all the earth -- may the Republican Party, under God, from every mountainside, LET FREEDOM RING!~ Rev. Archibald Carey, Jr. My mother worked as a domestic, two, sometimes three jobs at a time because she didn’t want to be on welfare. She felt very strongly that if she gave up and went on welfare, that she would give up control of her life and of our lives, and I think she was probably correct about that. … But, one thing that she provided us was a tremendous example of what hard work is like.~ Dr. Ben Carson It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.~ Shirley Chisholm The last damn thing blacks should do is get into the vanguard of banning books. The next step is banning blacks...~ Dr. Kenneth Clark Think! It ain't illegal 'yet.'~ George Clinton I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.~ Bill Cosby If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil. That is to say, it will not be the equality of social conditions but rather their inequality which may give rise thereto.~ Alexis de Tocqueville You know, being black doesn’t give you a license to call people racist any more than being Jewish gives you license to call people anti-Semitic.~ Alan Dershowitz Don't let your mouth write no check that your tail can't cash.~ Bo Diddley I know no class of my fellowmen, however just, enlightened, and humane, which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely with the liberties of any other class.~ Frederick Douglass Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print