Magical Negro/Quotes

Jon- What about all the imaginary black people who help the white community, your Bagger Vances, your Michael Clark Duncan in The Green Mile, your Morgan Freeman in really almost anything?

Wyatt- Jon, I know you're trying to help but that is so patronising. Look those black men you mentioned, they're not imaginary, they're magical.

—The Daily Show: Wyatt Cenac on Imaginary Black On White Crime

I was raised on TV and I was conditioned to believe that every black woman over 50 is a cosmic mentor.

—Jeff Winger, Community

If The Dark Knight and The Green Mile have taught us one thing, it's that super-sized African American felons are the noblest men on earth.

—The Dark Knight Riff Trax

Well, I'm just an old fool, of course, and I don't know much about politics or the like, but I do know that America's kinda like this here crabapple tree, John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

—Tracy Jordan, 30 Rock

"The fact that people are poor or discriminated against doesn't necessarily endow them with any special qualities of justice, nobility, charity or compassion."

—Saul Alinsky