Black Pride Quotes:

The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.

- Marcus Garvey

topic: Greatness, Racism, Black, African Culture, Black Nationalism

I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.

- Muhammad Ali

topic: Cocky, Greatness, Names, Social History, Cassius Clay

Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four.

- Chris Rock

topic: Sports, People, Black, Black Pride

Humans tend to start the process of change by acknowledging themselves. Thus blacks asserted black pride and 'black is beautiful;' women declared 'I am woman, I am strong'; men are saying 'I am man, I am okay.' After a quarter of a century of male bashing, that's not a bad start.

- Warren Farrell

source: "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

topic: Beautiful, Strong, Pride, I Am Strong, Quarter Of A Century

Later, I would realize that the position of most black students in predominantly white colleges was already too tenuous, our identities too scrambled, to admit to ourselves that our black pride remained incomplete. And to admit our doubt and confusion to whites, to open up our psyches to general examination by those who had caused so much of the damage in the first place, seemed ludicrous, itself an expression of self-hatred - for there seemed no reason to expect that whites would look at our private struggles as a mirror into their own souls, rather than yet more evidence of black pathology.

- Barack Obama

topic: Struggle, Pride, Psych, Self Hatred, Black Pride

There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria.

- Binyavanga Wainaina

topic: Country, Pride, Diversity, Nigeria, Black Pride

People look at black pride in America and sport's impact on it. In the major cities it took off the first time Jackie Robinson stole home. In the deep South, it started with Eddie Robinson, who took a small college in northern Louisiana with little or no funds and sent the first black to the pros and made everyone look at him and Grambling.

- Jerry Izenberg

topic: Sports, Home, Pride, Eddie Robinson, Black Pride

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

- David Foster Wallace

source: Interview With Larry McCaffery, www.dalkeyarchive.com. 1993.

topic: Rap, Pride, Black, Conscious Rap, Black Pride

When I was a teenager, black pride became newly popular again. Suddenly a lot of black people were wearing the fake kente cloth and red black and green and Bob Marley. That was sort of my window into finding my own identity as a black person.

- W. Kamau Bell

topic: Teenager, Pride, People, Marley, Black Pride