When you're poor and black in America, you stand a greater chance of going to prison for something you didn't do. — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
The crisis in black America is threefold...economic...political...and spiritual. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
There is not a black America and a white America; a Latino America, an Asian America. There is the United States of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults. — Maggie Gallagher Copy Share Image
Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face. — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share Image
When I first got to Los Angeles, hip-hop music was a scary thing not only to white America but to middle-class black… — The D.O.C Copy Share Image
There ought to be a robust, uninhibited conversation in black America with different black ideological perspectives. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
If I could offer a single prescription for the survival of America, and particularly black America, it would be to restore the… — William Raspberry Copy Share Image
Being black in America - especially as I was growing up - the feeling of oppression, the feeling of being outcast, the… — Rza Copy Share Image
A part of being black in America and, you know, I presume being any minority, is constantly being told that we're being… — Jordan Peele Copy Share Image
I thought our community should have a deep dialogue to make black America better. I believe if we make black America better,… — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King was a misguided leader. He worked to be recognized as the leader of black America, when what black America… — Don Yaeger Copy Share Image
There's always opposition when you speak on topics like I'm speaking on. But I'm a black man in America. I grew up… — Eric Reid Copy Share Image
I was adopted my black Americans, I feel that I'm a 'Hybrid'. When I'm around Africans'I suddenly feel very black American. And… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
There are huge divorces and divides and chasms in black America between the have-gots and the have-nots, between the monied and the… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The emphasis on personal responsibility is something we've had in black America from the get-go. Every major leader and intellectual worth her… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I think, something that you might be able to locate in the work that I'm creating today: the ability to look at… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Leftist big-government policies have been disastrous for black America just as they were in the countries that most Hispanics emigrated from. But… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
“Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others. Black America… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Black America surely faces an existential crisis, but not the one imagined in the condescending news media - of somehow getting non-black… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Women and LBGT people have the advantage that they are everybody's son, daughter, cousin, nephew, aunt, uncle. They are in a position… — Linda Hirshman Copy Share Image
In the era of slavery, you could be a so-called Afro-Cuban one day and a so-called Black American the next day, or… — Gerald Horne Copy Share Image
“Martin Luther King, Jr., is the most quoted black man on the planet. His words are like scripture to you and, yes,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“Most people write me off when they see me. They do not know my story. They say I am just an African.… — idowu koyenikan Copy Share Image
“When presidential candidate Barack Obama presented himself to the black community, he was not to be believed. It strained credulity to think… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Awad Ibrahim, Sudanese professor of education at the University of Ottawa, described the process [of becoming Black in America] in these terms:… — H. Samy Alim Copy Share Image
“In the American way of life pleasure involves comfort, convenience, and sexual stimulation. Pleasure, so defined, has little to do with the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The question of religion in black America is something filmmakers don't want to touch. — James McBride Copy Share Image
![“Awad Ibrahim, Sudanese professor of education at the University of Ottawa, described the process [of becoming Black in America] in these terms: "To become black is to become an ethnographer who translates and searches around in an effort to understand what it means to be black in North America."…” quote by H. Samy Alim](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/5b7/h-samy-alim-175060_african-american_awad-ibrahim-sudanese-professor-of-educa_1372530.jpg)
