If you are the normal white American, truth is you don't understand being black in America, and you instinctively underestimate the level… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ...… — Mary McLeod Bethune Copy Share Image
The cultural pressure for a middle-class Chinese-American to walk, talk and act like a lower-class thug from Chinatown is nil. The same… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
Most of black America is in housing projects, without jobs, living on welfare. And this is not the case in 'The Cosby… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
The rise of African nations concurrent with the spread of the Nation of Islam and the civil rights movement gave black America… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
I've been socially deemed black in America, and this is a category that's been hurting my family for generations and that has… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
My mixed-race background made me a broad person, able to relate to different cultures. But any woman of colour, even a mixed… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
It is not the destiny of Black America to repeat white America's mistakes. But we will, if we mistake the trappings of… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
White America is tortured by black America's failure to thrive, and all that guilt and anxiety has only gotten worse as a… — James Howard Kunstler 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
For black America needs a politics whose first mission isn't the reinforcement of the idea of black America; and a discourse of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Beloved, to be black in America is to live in terror. That terror is fast. It is glimpsed in cops giving chase… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I stand before you today as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the presidency of the United States. I am not… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
Jeremiah Wright is one of the greatest prophetic preachers that black America has produced. What I find striking is that many white… — Michael Eric Dyson 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
“Black people are not the descendants of kings. We are—and I say this with big pride—the progeny of slaves. If there’s any… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Being called Black in America is the struggle to keep us moving and breathing over bloody water. Being a Nig**r or [Ni**a]… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
We are used to filmmakers telling us what it means to be black in America and we're always instructing it, like we're… — Nia DaCosta Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is very diverse, but if you only focus on one aspect of it, then what you get is this image of… — Prince Copy Share Image
I started a lecture series that was inspired by my reporting on race in America. The 'Black in America' series launched on… — Soledad O'Brien 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… — Jim Brown Copy Share Image
You know, I grew up Black in America, I grew up close to Spanish Harlem where we ain't have much money, but… — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
There is no one way to be Black in America, but there is one way we live while Black in America. No… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
I am not the candidate of Black America, although I am black and proud. I am not the candidate of the woman's… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
Barack Obama actually grew up black in America. He knows a thing or two about being judged by the color of his… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
America is capable at single moments of receiving the depth and the breadth of the homiletical vision of black America when a… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Tupac has always been somebody who represented a higher consciousness of what it means on both sides of the coin to be… — Kat Graham Copy Share Image
Black America now has the power to achieve economic inclusion, which we rightfully deserve because we built this country. This is a… — Byron Allen Copy Share Image
At screenings for 'Black in America,' I've heard people say, 'Well you know, I never thought you were black until you did… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
“gun crime: it wasn’t equally distributed throughout black America. Rather, it was concentrated among the poorest blacks, who were forced into living… — James Forman Jr Copy Share Image
I think that the Vietnam War era is important because we tend not to want to revisit it. For black people, there… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
It's not anything that is just perpetuated by White America or just perpetuated by Black America. It's just a cultural understanding that… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
Obama was elected in a flourish of promise that many in the African-American community believed would help not only to symbolize African-American… — Douglas Wilder Copy Share Image
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