Blackface Quotes

• Una cara blanca va con una mente blanca. Ocasionalmente una cara negra va con una mente blanca. Muy raramente una cara blanca tendrá una mente negra.

  Nikki Giovanni

  White, Black, Mind

  1971 Conversación con James Baldwin, Londres, 4 nov. Recogida en A Dialogue (1973).

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• Denuncia, educa, no te dejes intimidar por los apologistas y no permitas que el racismo extremo se generalice. Esperemos que llegue un momento en que no tengamos que decir a nuestros hijos que Halloween no es excusa para el odio y que el disfraz de negro no tiene cabida en una sociedad civilizada.

  Christine Pelosi

  Liderazgo, Halloween, Odio

  "Halloween no es excusa para el odio: la cara negra no tiene cabida", por Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. 27 de octubre de 2013.

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• I have a huge issue with blackface.

  Rachel Dolezal

  Issues, Huge

  "As Rachel Dolezal Breaks Silence, a Roundtable Discussion on Race, Appropriation and Identity". www.democracynow.org. June 17, 2015.

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• I thought Black Friday was when everyone puts on blackface and steals children from Wal-Mart.

  Stephen Colbert

  Friday, Children, Black

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• I think when black performers performed in blackface, they were kind of taking back slave songs, but it was still a little bit iffy because they were performing, a lot of times, for white audiences who found it hilarious.

  Cecile McLorin Salvant

  Song, Thinking, White

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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• I think it is very ironic that most people think that the banjo is a southern white instrument. It came from Africa and even for the first years that white people played banjo they would put on blackface.

  Bela Fleck

  Thinking, Years, White

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• [Zwarte Piet] is unfortunate, and just like the early American blackface films, if it offends a segment of the population, it shouldn't be shown again.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Population, Film, Unfortunate

  Fuente: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Just reading that - just reading that a person can be black and still perform in blackface, making fun of black people for a living, and at the same time be a genius and be an incredible entertainer and at the same time be extremely conflicted and feel like - just feel terrible for doing that, essentially, which is what Bert Williams felt, from what I gather, from what I read - all of that just made - was so incredible to me.

  Cecile McLorin Salvant

  Fun, Reading, People

  "Jazz Singer Cécile McLorin Salvant Doesn't Want To Sound 'Clean And Pretty'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 1, 2016.

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• Like, Australians definitely don't walk around dressed up in blackface going "Ha-ha."

  Chris Lilley

  Walks, Dressed Up

  "Chris Lilley on Angry Boys, the Blackface Taboo, and Laughing at His Own Jokes". Interview with Jean Bentley, www.vulture.com. December 28, 2011.

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• I was not interested in doing the plot of Oedipus in blackface. I did wonder, what would these people have been like if they hadn't been in that situation?... One could look at Oedipus, or at my character Augustus, as a cynical schemer who did everything because he was hungry for power. But that's just too easy. I'm more interested in how humans can embody conflicting goals and emotions.

  Rita Dove

  Character, Oedipus, People

  "The darker face of the earth". American Theatre, November 1, 1996.

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