Black Lives Matter is one iteration of a much larger struggle to fight for black people's freedom. — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
It's a significant question: should black people only adopt black children, and white people white children? — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Copy Share Image
I think we must never, ever demonize one another. That's true not just black people to black people; that's human being to… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
No one should advocate any peaceful suffering to black people, unless the black - white man is going to practice the same… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I think everyone is aware there's something wrong about the way violence is enacted against Black people in this country. — Nia DaCosta Copy Share Image
If white people need colleges to furnish teachers, ministers, lawyers, and doctors, do black people need nothing of the sort? — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
When we address the disparities facing black people, we get a lot closer to a true democracy where all lives matter. — Alicia Garza Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the Black man will only reach his full potential when he learns to draw upon the strengths and… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
Black people are not a monolith. Black people have different thoughts. And sometimes people just need to hear the harsh truth -… — JPEGMAFIA Copy Share Image
A lot of racism comes from projection. White Americans have a stereotype of black people being criminals purely because they can't acknowledge… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
[Grew up in Hawaii] that gave [Barack Obama] a kind of optimism, an ability to see things, you know, and frankly, an… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Wherever black people are in America, criminalization exists. Wherever there is a white-dominant space, deep racism exists as well - no matter… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
The Great Depression, they come out with the New Deal, black people didn't have access to those government stimulus packages. The New… — Eric Reid Copy Share Image
There were class differences among black people then and there are class differences among black people now. There is still an assumption… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
The data is going to indicate sadly that when the Obama administration is over, black people will have lost ground in every… — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
Without the presence of black people in America, European-Americans would not be "white"-- they would be Irish, Italians, Poles, Welsh, and other… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
It had long been true, and prisoners knew this better than anyone, that the poorer you were the more likely you were… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
When you think of the KKK, they actually have as their emblem a fiery cross. And they don't see any contradiction between… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“Politically progressive black people on the Left who are not nationalist, like myself, share a perspective that promotes the eradication of white… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
I think in order to achieve real change, we as the black community need to come up with real asks and we… — Maverick Carter Copy Share Image
“With Notes on the State of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson emerged as the preeminent American authority on Black intellectual inferiority. This status would… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
It's so important to create roles and characters and projects that feature black people in a way that's not specifically targeted toward… — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
You're going to have a racial explosion, and a racial explosion is more dangerous than an atomic explosion. It's going to explode… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Look at how lucky white people are compared to black people, who have suffered so much just because of their skin color,… — Severn Cullis-Suzuki Copy Share Image
Everybody else is out being themselves at work, so I don't understand why black people have to change the way they talk… — Deon Cole Copy Share Image
My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
We got no wealthy black people. We got rich people. Shaq is rich. The guy who signs his checks is wealthy. — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
“When other people are as outraged and as curious about those problems as black people are,” he says. “Then maybe we can… — Kennedy Ryan Copy Share Image
I'm going to let you in on a little secret: Black people are not afraid of White people. We're afraid of 'crazy'… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost,… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Black people don't talk about diabetes that much. I never knew anything. I thought everyone had an uncle with a leg cut… — Sherri Shepherd Copy Share Image
The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people… — Jean-Michel Basquiat Copy Share Image
I love being black. People look at me like I'm crazy cause I love myself, and I look at them like they… — Taisha N Wright Copy Share Image
The notion that Black people must be protected from a free ID to secure the vote is not just insane, it is… — Mark Robinson Copy Share Image
“For that more ennobling narrative, as for much of American history, the fact of black people is a problem.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Like many black people, I initially viewed the armed forces with a degree of suspicion. — Clive Lewis Copy Share Image
Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
For me, as a child, I certainly thought that there were more black people in the world than white people. — Keegan-Michael Key Copy Share Image
There are not enough Black people in America that we can just throw out our problematic brothers. — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
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