There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Some people in America don't ever interact with black people outside of television, so we should give them real, believable characters. — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
Jim Crow is alive and it's dressed in a Brooks Brothers suit, my friend, instead of a white robe. — Myrlie Evers-Williams Copy Share Image
These people didn't know anything about black people, so the only thing they could imagine was the worst thing. — Dennis Rodman Copy Share Image
I don't like the term 'black people', I find it demeaning to those of us that actually qualify as 'people'. — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
Black people are more likely to be incarcerated than white people. That's just a fact and it's regrettable and it's got to… — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
People make jokes about how black people are the first ones to be killed off. — Sanaa Lathan Copy Share Image
They'll touch you and look at your skin to see if it's paint. I'm not playing. All Russia is not like that.… — Gerald Green Copy Share Image
It's always baffled me why BET looks the way it does. This is Black Entertainment Television. Why are we up there, then,… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The lived experience of Black people in the United States has demonstrated countless times that we are neither seen as 'law-abiding citizens'… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, black pride became newly popular again. Suddenly a lot of black people were wearing the fake kente… — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
The same rebellion, the same impatience, the same anger that exists in the hearts of the dark people in Africa and Asia… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
We cannot afford to lose talented young black people, who make it to university, overseas, or worse, to let other talented black… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
I was very much a part of the civil rights era, so, of course, my fantasy was to marry some outstanding black… — Roxie Roker Copy Share Image
“But some people don’t want to believe that, because if varying degrees of blackness become normalized, then that means society has to… — Phoebe Robinson Copy Share Image
“I tell sincere white people, 'Work in conjunction with us- each of us working among our own kind.' Let sincere white individuals… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I remember one summer I played, like, with the granddaughter of this known Klan member. Like, all summer we caught cicadas. And… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
In England, you feel like a member of the revolutionary guard the minute you even mention race. But I do think that… — David Harewood Copy Share Image
There is still an assumption among many people that to be black is to be lower class. In the last fifteen to… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
“With every Black first, the blame shifted to those Black people who failed to break away. Du Bois’s The Crisis tried to… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
You see Martin Luther King is dead and Huey Newton is not. And Malcolm X is dead and Bobby Seale is not.… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
“But most Americans cannot comprehend the scrutiny that black people have been under since the days we were dragged here in bondage.… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people. — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
Did you see the 2000 Republican Presidential Convention? The last time the Republicans had that many Black people on a stage, they… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I want to help change the laws to protect all people - not just Republicans, not just Democrats, not just Black people,… — Angela Stanton-King Copy Share Image
There's some places where it will be a white person telling you that they can write for Black people better than you… — Janelle James Copy Share Image
I don't think a white person can write accurately and convincingly about what black people experience of oppression. — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
Black people who want to do comedy go into standup, where our heroes opened a lot of doors. Improv doesn't have a… — Jordan Peele Copy Share Image
A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The violence against unarmed Black people - names we know, and names we don't know - must end. — Mike Espy Copy Share Image
I'm light skinned, and I used to lean on that because that's something a lot of black people pride themselves on, and… — Chance the Rapper Copy Share Image
Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same… — Oliver Tambo Copy Share Image
If you're black, you can't just be ordinary. All successful black people are extraordinary. — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
I think the two issues, racism and chauvinism, are linked. Look at how much weaker was support for U.S. actions in Iraq… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
Black people drink lots of beer. However, you won't see us skiing down a mountain for one, or see us diving for… — Franklyn Ajaye Copy Share Image
God Bless Black People, Black Is Beauty. Once You Go Black, You Never Go Back. — Don Kel Copy Share Image
I'm glad that young black people are successful with the music. I'm not a hater. — DMX Copy Share Image
Black people mad Romney's white. White people mad Obama's black. Me? I'm mad no one cares about their policies or our country. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
