“I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“In Ugandan society a girl who had reached puberty was eligible for a family-arranged marriage. The groom would bring wealth to the… — Nick Hahn Copy Share Image
“What, you think if you live next door to them, they'll treat you different?" "Why does it always have to be about… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
The same would be true for something like Social Security, where historically, if you just read the law and the fact that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
African-Americans are always forced to learn the other culture, but the other culture is not forced to learn ours. I went to… — Tracie Thoms Copy Share Image
It's really important to have life strategies and part of that is sort of knowing where you want to go so you… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“She's scared, he thought. She's scared deaf, dumb, and blind. She thinks I'm going to rape her. I'm due to rape her,… — Ann Petry Copy Share Image
“Many members of that early band of twentieth-century pilgrims must have yearned for the honesty of Southern landscapes where even if they… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The magazines were born out of a need that my parents saw: that there were no magazines that really spoke to black… — Linda Johnson Rice Copy Share Image
“I considered the northern white stance against slavery. How much of the desire to end the institution was fueled by a need… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
“The fact that some African Americans have experienced great success in recent years does not mean that something akin to a racial… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
While he was in the service, in the South and in Oklahoma, he was refused service at a couple of places where… — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
“It further appeared that the experience of living below the $2-a-day threshold didn’t discriminate by family type or race. While single-mother families… — Kathryn Edin Copy Share Image
If Id lived prior to the 1980s, it would have been different, because I would have been playing to prove African Americans… — Venus Williams Copy Share Image
“Segregation laws were proposed as part of a deliberate effort to drive a wedge between poor whites and African Americans. These discriminatory… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Donna and Grace and so many people—specifically white people—often have understood slavery, and those held in its grip, only in abstract terms.… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
I don't think every African-American or Latino have the same body type, but, yes, that's been one of the excuses ... saying… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
“One of racism’s harms is the way it falls on the unexceptional Black person who is asked to be extraordinary just to… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
There's probably more of a struggle to get material and narratives published that really speak to black culture. And that has a… — Jerry Pinkney Copy Share Image
“The omnibus programs passed under the Social Security Act in 1935 were crafted in such a way as to protect the southern… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“the black church helped African Americans survive the harshest forms of oppression and developed a revolutionary appeal for universal communal spirituality. The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If federal programs were not, even to this day, reinforcing racial isolation by disproportionately directing low-income African Americans who receive housing assistance… — Richard Rothstein Copy Share Image
“That morning, like every morning, the first decision he made regarded his Blackness. His skin was a deep, constant brown. In public,… — Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what, our inner cities are so, so bad right now. The danger, the crime, the lack of education, no… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“African-American writers with an independent vision are often consigned to obscurity. The white critics can only tolerate one black writer at a… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
All my playmates were black. I lived in a little community called Archery (ph) in a rural area. And I didn't have… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“She supposed the young colored men of Link's generation couldn't have manners like Mr. Powther's, though she didn't know why. Wars and… — Ann Petry Copy Share Image
Yeah, remember, under the Bush administration, welfare — I mean, excuse me, poverty among African Americans and among single unmarried women, poverty… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
“If I knew anything about being black in America it was that nothing was guaranteed, you couldn't count on a thing, and… — Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah Copy Share Image
“Merely reducing sentence length, by itself, does not disturb the basic architecture of the New Jim Crow. So long as large numbers… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings. Consequently, our laws and attitudes have been straining… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
“I know that there are some reading this who will sneer. Representation! It’s so soft, so wimpy, so liberal. Well, if you… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
How did the party that elected the first black U.S. senator, the party that elected the first 20 African American congressmen, become… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
