#blacks

A new poll shows that Senator Kerry's support in the South is strongest amongst blacks. Kerry's appeal to Southern blacks is obvious. He is a white man who lives far, far away. ↗

— Dennis Miller

#appeal #away #blacks #far #far away

We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#blacks #exemplary #knew #know #now

No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I liked in the only voice I had. ↗

— Charley Pride

#blacks #ever #had #i #kind

Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs. ↗

— Ishmael Reed

#baseball #become #blacks #chicago #chicago cubs

There was absolutely no work for Latinos and blacks. ↗

— Victor Argo

#blacks #latinos #work

Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#because #blacks #blood #determination #excel

We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him. We gave him his first love, 96 percent of blacks voted for him in 2008. Yet today we are the number one in unemployment, with 16 percent of American blacks out of work. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#before #blacks #embracing #expensive #first

We are of the opinion that an important and irreversible process is taking place among the white population. Just as with the blacks, the whites, too, are currently overcoming a psychological barrier. ↗

— Joe Slovo

#barrier #blacks #currently #important #irreversible

The idea that blacks, or anyone for that matter, need the government to get ahead in life is despicable. And even more important, this idea is a failure. Our communities are just as poor as they’ve always been. Our schools continue to fail children. Our prisons are filled with young black men who should be at home being fathers. Our self-initiative and our self-reliance have been sacrificed in exchange for allegiance to our overseers who control us by making us dependent on them. ↗

— Elbert Guillory

#government #home

What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

#could #expression #fighting #halls #housing