Quotes tagged ‘negro’

“Uncle Elroy: [Suga falls on Craig's lap, face-down] Negro, what the hell you doing with my woman? Craig: I don't know. I must have...shit. Uncle Elroy: Suga? What the hell you doing with my nephew? Suga: I'm sorry, baby. I thought it was you. Uncle Elroy: Come on, baby. I'm faded, feeling X-rated. I…”

— Ice Cube, Craig Jones, Ice Cube, imdb.com

“Latrell Spencer: Oh, the deception. The betrayal. Man, you deceived me. Marcus Copeland: Look, man. Latrell Spencer: Negro, please. Didn’t anyone tell you that this was an all-white party, huh? Someone get this jigaboo away from me.”

— Keenen Ivory Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Andrew McElfresh, Xavier Cook, Michael Anthony Snowden, Latrell Spencer, Terry Crews, imdb.com

“You know the damage one ignorant Negro can do? We were in France in the first war; we'd won decorations. But the white boys had told all them French gals that we had tails. Then they found this ignorant colored soldier, paid him to tie a tail to his ass and run around half-naked, making monkey sound…”

— Charles Fuller, Sergeant Waters, Adolph Caesar, imdb.com

“I just love listening to Wolfman. My Mom won't let me at home. Because he's a Negro. I think he's terrific.”

— George Lucas, Gloria Katz, Willard Huyck, Carol, Mackenzie Phillips, imdb.com

“I had the most absurd nightmare. I was poor and no one liked me. I lost my job, I lost my house, Penelope hated me, and it was all because of this terrible, awful Negro!”

— Timothy Harris, Herschel Weingrod, Louis Winthorpe III, Dan Aykroyd, imdb.com

“[as Mary goes to hitchhike she notices a police car approaching them] Mary Jackson: Girls. Dorothy Vaughan: No crime in a broken-down car. Mary Jackson: No crime being Negro neither. Katherine Johnson: Button it up, Mary. Nobody wants to go to jail behind your mouth. Mary Jackson: I’ll do my best, s…”

— Allison Schroeder, Theodore Melfi, Mary Jackson, Janelle Monae, imdb.com

“[as they are following the cop who’s escorting them to work] Dorothy Vaughan: Mary, Mary, slow down. You’re too close! Mary Jackson: Be quiet, he said to follow him. Dorothy Vaughan: He didn’t mean up his behind! Katherine Johnson: Dear Lord, I don’t even know where to begin! Mary Jackson: Oh, I’ll…”

— Allison Schroeder, Theodore Melfi, Mary Jackson, Janelle Monae, imdb.com

“Had ten minutes conversation with Henry Morgenthau about Jewish ship in Palistine [sic]. Told him I would talk to Gen[eral] Marshall about it. He'd no business, whatever to call me. The Jews have no sense of proportion nor do they have any judgement on world affairs. Henry brought a thousand Jews to…”

— Harry S Truman, trumanlibrary.org

“Art and science were in German hands. Apart from the new artistic trash, which might easily have been produced by a negro tribe, all genuine artistic inspiration came from the German section of the population.”

— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com

“The prejudice against color, of which we hear so much, is no stronger than that against sex. It is produced by the same cause, and manifested very much in the same way. The negro's skin and the woman's sex are both prima facie evidence that they were intended to be in subjection to the white Saxon m…”

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, en.wikiquote.org

“The question invariably arises as to what, in fact, is the nature of the civil rights movement today? And I am one who claims that it is, at once, a movement for integration into the American society, as it now exists, and simultaneously a revolutionary movement. If one were to ask the average Negro…”

— Bayard Rustin, americanradioworks.publicradio.org

“Mrs. Greenstone, I am 59 years old. I am black and I have lived with and fought racism my entire life. I have been in prison 23 times—serving 28 months in a federal penitentiary and 30 days on a North Carolina chain gang, among other punishments. I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction.…”

— Bayard Rustin, huffingtonpost.com

“So that saying, in the struggle between the negro and the crocodile, &c., is made up from the idea that down where the crocodile inhabits a white man can't labor; it must be nothing else but crocodile or negro; if the negro does not the crocodile must possess the earth; [Laughter] in that case he de…”

— Abraham Lincoln, historyplace.com

“Why are black people tall? Their knee grows!”

— ThyLurker, reddit.com