42 Black History Quotes from Movies (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Aug 16, 2025

A selection of black history quotes with sound bites from famous or less known movies, as rated by our visitors, accompanied by short MP3 or WAV audio samples.

1 Let me tell you something, boy. You can march like the white man, you can talk like him, you can learn his songs, you can even wear his suits, but you ain't never gonna be nothing to him but an ugly-_ chimp in a blue suit.

Denzel Washington as Private Silas Trip in Glory (1989)

2 And what are you? So full of hate you just wanna go and fight everybody because you've been whipped and chased by hounds.

Matthew Broderick as Colonel Robert Gould Shaw in Glory (1989)

3 So you must first of all remember that this system was not originally designed with Black people in mind.

Max Julien as Goldie The Mack in The Mack (1973)

4 I've gotten a map of Africa, and I've seen how, from its wide northern top to its southern end, the empires of Europe have carved it into little pieces.

Quote from Destination Freedom

5 You see, you're new in this country... You don't understand we don't accept Negros in this hotel.

Quote from Destination Freedom

6 The state law says it's illegal for whites and Negroes to eat together in the same restaurant. The last two who got brotherly got thirty days to boot.

Quote from Destination Freedom

7 For white and colored citizens to eat together in this state's crime, it's just a natural crime.

Quote from Destination Freedom

8 Teach them to overcome as much as possible their prejudices and realize that the culture of Africa and Asia is even older than our own.

Quote from Destination Freedom

9 For Negroes and whites to read that there Constitution together in the South is... is unconstitutional!

Quote from Destination Freedom

10 The church for Negroes is on the other part of town. However, you have my deepest sympathy.

Quote from Destination Freedom

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