Black Pride Quotes

1. "Let's say black, the whole black religious experience, here, is very impressive to me, because when I first arrived I realized that people carry their faith with so much pride."
Author: Boris Kodjoe

2. "I'm light skinned, and I used to lean on that because that's something a lot of black people pride themselves on, and it's weird."
Author: Chance The Rapper

3. "Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride."
Author: David Foster Wallace

4. "I think it was the beginning of Mrs. Bond's unquestioning faith in me when she saw me quickly enveloping the cat till all you could see of him was a small black and white head protruding from an immovable cocoon of cloth. He and i were now facing each other, more or less eyeball to eyeball, and George couldn't do a thing about it. As i say, I rather pride myself on this little expertise, and even today my veterinary colleagues have been known to remark, "Old Herriot may be limited in many respects, but by God he can wrap a cat."
Author: James Herriot

5. "I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity."
Author: Michael Jackson

6. "A truly enlightened attitude to language should simply be to let six thousand or more flowers bloom. Subcultures should be allowed to thrive, not just because it is wrong to squash them, because they enrich the wider culture. Just as Black English has left its mark on standard English Culture, South Africans take pride in the marks of Afrikaans and African languages on their vocabulary and syntax. New Zealand's rugby team chants in Maori, dancing a traditional dance, before matches. French kids flirt with rebellion by using verlan, a slang that reverses words' sounds or syllables (so femmes becomes meuf). Argentines glory in lunfardo, an argot developed from the underworld a centyry ago that makes Argentine Spanish unique still today. The nonstandard greeting "Where y'at?" for "How are you?" is so common among certain whites in New Orleans that they bear their difference with pride, calling themselves Yats. And that's how it should be."
Author: Robert Lane Greene

7. "Negative feelings were shades of black, with a few exceptions. Envy was green. Pride was purple. And lust was red."
Author: Wendy Higgins

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