Jews and blacks come from the same history. . . . We've just expressed our suffering differently as people. Blacks developed the blues. Jews complain; we just never thought of putting it to music. —Jon Stewart More about this quote Tags: history suffering complaining jewishness blackness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed, it's called a depression. —Jesse Jackson More about this quote Tags: USA race blackness unemployment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If a white man falls off a chair drunk, it's just a drunk. If a Negro does, it's the whole damn Negro race. —Bill Cosby More about this quote Tags: perception race blackness whiteness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I still say black. I say it because . . . African American . . . doesn't make your life any easier. You don't see black people . . . saying, "Oh yeah, African American. Man, I'll tell ya, this beats the hell outta being black." . . . You don't see any of us going into Bank of America [saying], "Excuse me, I'm here to pick up my loan." . . . You were rejected for that loan last week." . . . "I was black then. See, I'm African American now. I'll just go in the vault and take what I need. —Wanda Sykes More about this quote Tags: America naming discrimination blackness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email