For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people. — Linda Chavez Copy Share Image
It's a good feeling, that you can put your heart out there, no matter how black it is, and people can understand… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When our founding fathers drafted the Constitution and Bill of Rights, black people weren't even considered human. — Claudette Colvin Copy Share Image
I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Black people are experiencing a systemic disadvantage, and it goes back to slavery, which was not that long ago. — Justin Simien 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
Either black people end up being the best in sports, or else it's show business. You know, we all got rhythm. — Diana Ross Copy Share Image
All disco singers are non-professionals who can't do live shows. It loses what black people have created. — Wilson Pickett Copy Share Image
There are three things that Black people need to tell the truth about. Number one: Rodney King should've gotten his ass beat… — Cedric The Entertainer Copy Share Image
I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that's real. Mistreatment of other people because… — Melissa Leo Copy Share Image
They have what you call a black night where they have black people come in for just one night only to watch… — Mike Epps Copy Share Image
Any community seriously concerned with its own freedom has to be concerned about other people's freedom as well. The victory of oppressed… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
I'm the descendant of enslaved black people in this country. You could've been born in 1820 if you were black and looked… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I spent seven months in Africa and came back saying there isn't anything you can say about black people that you couldn't… — Larry Rivers Copy Share Image
I grew up watching shows like 'Martin' and 'Fresh Prince' and 'Moesha,' and I was inspired by all these shows. When I… — Jermaine Fowler Copy Share Image
We have always policed the bodies of people of color, and black people in particular. The Jim Crow South is a classic… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
Black people need some peace. White people need some peace. And we are going to have to fight. We're going to have… — Fred Hampton Copy Share Image
“Rev. [Martin Luther] King continued, chanting, singing his prophetic litany. We were one people, indivisible in the sight of God, responsible to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Im very connected to my community and I want black people to know that I havent abandoned them because Ive had a… — Halle Berry Copy Share Image
In my opinion while lynchings were quite possibly the most heinous crimes ever witnessed in American history, they helped in bringing people… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
“In Chicago, two days later, two black people beat and robbed a “white boy” in revenge for Trayvon. Eighteen-year-old Alton Hayes III… — Colin Flaherty Copy Share Image
Only black people in the whole neighborhood, so let's break it down: Me, I'm a decent comedian, I'm a'ight. Mary J. Blige,… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
Richard exhaled. It was like somebody sprinkling pepper on his wound: Thousands of Biafrans were dead, and this man wanted to know… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Tragedy happens - "tragic mistakes" happen - when men act according to their flawed natures, in fulfillment of their preordained destinies. The… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I think that was one of the reasons I loved 'Moonlight.' I don't remember if there's a single white person in that… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
We know that there are people in our nation, black people, who are systematically being disenfranchised in a number of spheres in… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
If the world was a jacket where would the black people live? In the HOOOD ! Lol — Devin Cotton Copy Share Image
I remember that my mother used to take me to see ballets, especially if there were black people in them. — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
I'm a big admirer of Raheem and I think that he's a big role model for people like myself, young black people… — Dominic Calvert-Lewin Copy Share Image
Saying women aren't funny is now like saying Asians can't drive or saying black people have bad credit. It's just really, like,… — Whitney Cummings Copy Share Image
The Dr. King holiday is not just for black people, African-Americans or people of African descent. — LZ Granderson Copy Share Image
When Oregon was founded as a state in 1857, its constitution explicitly banned Black people from visiting, living and owning property here. — Ted Wheeler Copy Share Image
I hope people listen to black people more. You'd be surprised how little people listen to black people when it comes to… — Daniel Kaluuya Copy Share Image
Black people are pledging their fealty to the state, and yet they aren't getting the same return. This is theft. It's systemized. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
This nigga Magic Johnson own a basketball team, baseball team nd a movie theatre.. Fuck kind of Aids he got???? FINANCIAL AIDS??? — Deon Crockett Copy Share Image
Today is Martin Luther King Day , and He didn't have a dream that black people would divide up into teamlightskinned and teamdarkskinned. — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
I just feel in a lot of ways black people are so much looser and cooler. Just as a culture, it's so… — Paul Reubens Copy Share Image
The reason we life black people isn't because they're black. We like them because they're not as grey as we are. — John Cage Copy Share Image
Films portraying successful black people getting married are great, but films that only show one aspect of our culture, bother me. — Drake Copy Share Image
Black power is organizing the rage of Black people and putting new hard questions and demands to white America. — Charles Hamilton Houston Copy Share Image
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