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  • Within the black community, roughly 60 percent of children are born to single moms. Moms don't have the emotional wherewithal to deal with their children. Their English is atrocious. Their speaking is atrocious. The dropout rate is horrendous.

  • I can no more disown (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother - a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.

    Grandmother   Men   White  
    A More Perfect Union, delivered 18 March 2008, Philadelphia, PA
  • 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.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • When you're black, you have to deal with so much crap in your life from other black people. It's a dirty, dark secret; I'm glad it's coming out.

    Dirty   Dark   People  
    "'Brainwashed' blacks hold up success". Interview with Breeanna Hare, www.cnn.com. October 28, 2014.
  • In my opinion, mature political action is the type of action that that involves a program of re-education and information that will enable the black people in the black community to see the fruits that they should be receiving from the politicians who are over them and, thereby, they are then able to determine whether or not the politician is really fulfilling his function.

    Source: nyx.uky.edu
  • Genetically, I'm pure Greek. Psychologically, environmentally, culturally, by choice, I'm a member of the black community.

  • There's some homophobia within black community, but there's some strong homophobia throughout the whole of American society as well, particularly throughout the South to a degree, whether white or black. And since many of us migrated from the South, that could be a strong connection along those lines.

  • We don't have a full black community in Boston. Our people are scattered. There's a middle class where I live in Highland Park but it's not like a piece of Washington or Chicago.

    Boston   Class   People  
  • In 1990, when we started the Black Community Crusade for Children, we were always talking about all children, but we paid particular attention to children who were not white, who were poor, who were disabled, and who were the most vulnerable.Parents didn't think their children would live to adulthood, and the children didn't think they were going to live to adulthood. That's when we started our first gun-violence campaign. We've lost 17 times more young black people to gun violence since 1968 than we lost in all the lynching in slavery.

    Children   Thinking   Gun  
    Interview with Jurnee Smollett-Bell, www.lennyletter.com. April 8, 2016.
  • I've gotten nothing but warmth from the Black community and positive feedback.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • Unfortunately, as I tell my white friends, we as black people, we're never going to be successful not because of you white people but because of other black people.

    "Charles Barkley: 'Brainwashed' blacks hold up success" by Breeanna Hare, www.cnn.com. October 28, 2014.
  • I talked to a lot of Black Lives activists in various states. What I learned is that the relationship of police departments around the country with the black community is far, far more severe and awful than I had originally known.

    Source: billmoyers.com
  • Mass incarceration is a policy that's kind of built up over the last four decades and it's destroyed families and communities, and something we need to change. And it's fallen disproportionally on black and brown communities, especially black communities, and it's kind of a manifestation of structural racism.

    Source: www.washingtontimes.com
  • In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, we did create Color of Change, an organization which focused on African-Americans in particular, because we felt that there was a big gap there in terms of online advocacy which had left the black community particularly vulnerable.

    Source: aalbc.com
  • Education remains one of the black community's most enduring values. It is sustained by the belief that freedom and education go hand in hand, that learning and training are essential to economic quality and independence.

    Hands   Community   Black  
  • It has always been an irony to me that the 'religious right' has come under so much attack for being involved in politics when the black community has been doing it for hundreds of years. The Reverend Jesse Jackson is rarely, if ever, attacked for his involvement in politics.

  • I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.

    Frontline Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.
  • Earlier in my college career, there was no doubt in my mind that as a member of the Black community I was somehow obligated to this community and would utilize all of my present and future resources to benefit this community first and foremost.

  • Who are the slumlords in the Black community? The so-called Jews. … Who is it sucking our blood in the Black community? A white imposter Arab and a white imposter Jew.

    Blood   White   Community  
  • I've heard Donald [Trump]s ay this at his rallies, and it's really unfortunate that he paints such a dire negative picture of black communities in our country.

    Source: time.com
  • Seven out of 10 black faces you see on television are athletes. The black athlete carries the image of the black community. He carries the cross, in a way, until blacks make inroads in other dimensions.

  • The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And what we had done is, we wanted to write a program that was straightforward to the people. We didn't want to give a long dissertation.

    Writing   Destiny   Long  
  • I understand how difficult it can be for an African-American in today’s society. In fact, I can relate to black people very well indeed. My ancestors once owned slaves, and it is in my lineage to work closely with the black community. However, just because they were freed over a century ago doesn’t mean they can now be freeloaders. They need to be told to work hard, and the incentives just aren’t there for them anymore. When I’m president I plan to work closely with the black community to bring a sense of pride and work ethic back into view for them.

    Hard Work   Mean   Pride  
    "Mitt Romney: I Can Relate To Black People, My Ancestors Once Owned Slaves" by S.Wood, www.freewoodpost.com.
  • Music is the very cement that has not just held the black community together but holds black selves together in a fundamental sense.

    Self   Community   Black  
    Interview with Itabari Njeri, articles.latimes.com. October 22, 1995.
  • I understand what rappers are talking about. I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money.

  • We can't talk about the black community. It's no longer a homogeneous community; it was never a homogeneous community.

    PBS Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.
  • The reason why rappers are living in - you know, driving in Mercedes-Benz's and living in neighborhoods is because they're selling their music, not just to the black community, but to the white community.

    Source: www.patheos.com
  • Scientology is not written with disrespect toward God. It doesn't worship something that is evil. It is scientific, mathematical, and spiritual. The black community has to check it out and see what's there. I'm not saying it's for everyone, but you have to take a look.

    "Scientology appealing to African-Americans" by Matthew Hay Brown, www.baltimoresun.com. September 7, 2009.
  • Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.

  • I have an organization called BLIND [Beautiful Love Incorporated Nonprofit Development], so named because even though my interest is in the black community, because that's where I grew up and that's where I'm most skilled in fixing things, it doesn't end there.

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