“Americans reading early colonial newspapers learned two recurring lessons about Black people: they could be bought like cattle, and they were dangerous… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
Photography, sculpture, and painting were wielded as cultural weapons over the course of generations to substantiate the idea that black people were… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
Being someone that grew up in a biracial household I never really felt accepted by black people when I was a little… — Vic Mensa Copy Share Image
White America's live under this accusation that they're racist, they need to prove that they're not racist. In order to prove that… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
It's always the case that the minority has to navigate two different worlds. Women have to know how to live in a… — Sterling K. Brown Copy Share Image
I had one incident where my daughter said that a girl asked if she was a brown person. I said, 'We're black.… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
The black people in this country are taught that their religion and the best religion is the religion of Islam, and when… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“The confines of enslavement were producing Black people who were intellectually, psychologically, culturally, and behaviorally different, not inferior. Benjamin” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“They didn't mean it to be like this. But it was like this. Both had other intentions. Howard had knocked on the… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
When you have a small town where all of a sudden there's 3,000 black people living in a neighborhood where there were… — Jonas Carpignano Copy Share Image
History shows that black people have been second-class citizens, less than human. That's what had to happen with slavery. You had to… — John Barnes Copy Share Image
I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“If women, as a gender, must suffer the constant evaluations and denigrations of men, black women must suffer that, plus a broad… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
When my family first moved to Hempstead in the 1960s, they were one of the first black families. It used to be… — Prodigy Copy Share Image
I think that hip-hop should be spelled with a capital "H," and as one word. It's the name of our black people… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
“You can’t host or show some black people good time without regretting, Because the same people you are showing good time. You… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
The black people of America have been victims of violence at the hands of the white men for four hundred years, and… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts that much. And we didn't recognize… — Ike Turner Copy Share Image
When you were growing up in the 30s, 20s, of course the 40s, all black people at least in the Washington, D.C.,… — Ed Smith Copy Share Image
Here in Britain, black people are disproportionately targeted, arrested and imprisoned for drug offences, while organised and violent crime are granted a… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
Too often, ill-informed rhetoric has led to emotional hysteria that obfuscates solid evidence regarding the real problems faced by poor people and,… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
I've been using the phrase Black Lives Matter quite a lot. I'm not saying that all lives don't matter, I'm just saying… — Kalvin Phillips Copy Share Image
Racial terrorism affects the lives of white people and black people and everyone, everything. Racism is contaminating. It can affect the dogs… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
There is something about Sundiata [Acoli] that exudes calm. From every part of his being you can sense the presence of revolutionary… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
Every now and then you get a nice Jewish kid who likes black people and they would come in, and it would… — Mike Epps Copy Share Image
Racial oppression of black people in America has done what neither class oppression or sexual oppression, with all their perniciousness, has ever… — Eleanor Holmes Norton Copy Share Image
I'm determined to disagree with people without being disagreeable. That's part of the empathy. Empathy doesn't just extend to cute little kids.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I would like to remind the black ministry and indeed all black people that God is not in the habit of coming… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
I had forgotten that Jess felt about long words the way that racists feel about black people: she hated them, and wanted… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I think it's useful to recall that a lot of these statutes like 'disrupting the classroom' or 'disturbing the peace' have long… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
“Slave masters thought they were making a difference in black people’s lives too. Saving them from their “wild African ways.” Same shit,… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
Certainly, black horror movie fans have, you know, been particularly vocal. I mean, there's the whole Eddie Murphy routine about, you know,… — Jordan Peele Copy Share Image
Whatever happens to us, however unjustified, will be slight compared to what has happened already to the Vietnamese people, to the Black… — David Dellinger Copy Share Image
The Black Lives Matter movement has to, by its very nature, be intersectional because of the complexities of who black people are… — Alicia Garza Copy Share Image
Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose… — Katherine Dunham Copy Share Image
When white people wear baggy clothing and speak gibberish they're homeless, when black people wear baggy clothing and speak gibberish they're called… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
“The more antiracist W. E. B. Du Bois became, the more he realized that trying to persuade powerful racists was a waste… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
You don't need someone destroying you when your own people are the worst messengers possible. And this is what black people in… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
If a girl understand your bull-shit, sticks through your childish acts, care for you even when you've done jack-shit for her! It's… — London Mond Copy Share Image
![“There is something about Sundiata [Acoli] that exudes calm. From every part of his being you can sense the presence of revolutionary spirit and fervor. And his love for Black people is so intense that you can almost touch it and hold it in your hand.” quote by Assata Shakur](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4ed/assata-shakur-2554_black_there-is-something-about-sundiata-acoli_3060073.png)
