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
I don't think there is enough understanding of how diverse black America actually is. — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
In black America there's such a thing as passing, the black people who are light skinned and they will pass for white. — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
We believe that when you make Black America better - you make all of America better. — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
Growing up black in America, and with Southern roots in my family, I was informed in my own life. — Rob Morgan Copy Share Image
I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood. — Will Smith Copy Share Image
Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who… — June Jordan 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
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
Do you have any idea what Ali meant to black people? He was the leader of a nation, the leader of Black… — Reggie Jackson Copy Share Image
It is utterly exhausting being Black in America - physically, mentally, and emotionally. While many minority groups and women feel similar stress,… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Audiences want great story telling; it's why white people watch my show 'Black in America.' It's why black people watch 'Latina in… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
What is being black? It's making the most of your life, not taking a single moment for granted. Taking something that's seen… — John Mayer Copy Share Image
My biggest inspiration is black America and what they've done in the arts. I have always felt like an outsider in America,… — Hasan Minhaj 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
When the Kerner Commission told white America what black America has always known, that prejudice and hatred built the nation’s slums, maintains… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
About the state of black America, I've been working on that for many, many years. And [Donald Trump] said certain things in… — Jim Brown 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
My biggest inspiration is black America and what they've done in the arts. I have always felt like an outsider in America,… — Hasan Minhaj Copy Share Image
Black America Has Allowed Itself to Be Used by Race-Baiters and White Liberal Elitists — Amy Ridenour Copy Share Image
Where are Jesse Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton? They don't speak for Black America, and they don't speak for me. — Darryl Glenn Copy Share Image
Somebody has always wanted me to speak as a voice of black America, but it has dawned on me that I can… — Yolanda King Copy Share Image
The history of black America was from slavery, oppression, civil rights, and you felt kind of isolated as an entity in our… — Rza Copy Share Image
Liberalism Has Nearly Destroyed Black America, And Now It’s Time For Black America To Return The Favor — Elbert Guillory Copy Share Image
Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal. — bell hooks Copy Share Image
In black America mother love is second only to the love of God - but just slightly. — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I think that Malcolm X was the most remarkable historical figure produced by Black America in the 20th century. — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better. — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
If you're black in America, race is a factor in your life. Start with that assumption. — Henry Hampton Copy Share Image
Black America knows what real progress looks like, that's why a Black family dancing to Tag Team in the kitchen sells a… — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
We have seen an unprecedented gathering of the leaders of black America coming together to speak with one voice, ... The whole… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
There's a class divide in black America that doesn't seem to trouble black Americans so much, but whites use it and exploit… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
I think we have come to a place in black America, sadly from my point of view, where we have once again… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
The Black church is extremely important in Black America. I think most Americans themselves believe in a divine power, in a god,… — Harry Lennix Copy Share Image
White folks, no matter how well-meaning or open-minded, have no true idea what it's like to be black in America. That's not… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
![“About the state of black America, I've been working on that for many, many years. And [Donald Trump] said certain things in his early days about wanting to do something about it. We have a lot of violence in our neighborhoods now. We need education. And we need jobs. Is what I'm trying to say.” quote by Jim Brown](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/03f/jim-brown-2991_america_about-the-state-of-black-america-i-ve-be_1840045.jpg)
