Reggae music don't really focus on one thing, you know. If reggae music is speaking about the struggle of people, and the… — Burning Spear Copy Share Image
When I was in school, I conceptually didn't want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history.… — Toyin Odutola Copy Share Image
The establishment has learned how to co-opt identity politics to put the brakes on economic progress and justice. So I would say… — Jimmy Dore Copy Share Image
Certain people and groups seem invested in convincing black people that black people are liberal. We've traditionally been conservative, church-going people. — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It's the weight on our shoulders. That is what's actually… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
A lot of the time, you see all this ambition from these black actors, and it's just pouring off the screen. Because… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
What I would really like to have been, given a perfect world, is a jazz pianist. I mean jazz. I don't mean… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the 'black people's CNN.' Well now, hip-hop is more like Fox… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
Growing up the way I did, it was tough being one of only a few black people in the town and in… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
“If you are a white person who would like to treat black people as equals in every way - who would like… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
When I first started writing plays I couldn't write good dialogue because I didn't respect how black people talked. I thought that… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
How did we lose our culture? Black people used to all do the same thing on Saturdays. We all watched "Soul Train"… — DJ Quik Copy Share Image
As long as people continue to embrace racism, ignore racism, make excuses for racism, and try to hide racism, we will forever… — Stephanie Lahart Copy Share Image
You can't have anything valuable in your house. Niggers will break in and take it all! Everything white people don't like about… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
Guys! While your'e BUSY ignoring your lady, another guy is TRYING really hard to get her attention. While your'e too busy for… — London Mond Copy Share Image
…“white supremacy” is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
If you're black, you can't just be ordinary. All successful black people are extraordinary. If you are tremendously successful, and you're black,… — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
When you teach black people that they are less beautiful, less moral, less intelligent, and as a result you defer to the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Atlanta is unique to me. You got poor black people, but I also saw this: I saw black doctors, lawyers, educators. All… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
The NYPD must stop acting like the only thing black people do is run from them and shoot at them. Believe it… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“If you’re telling a non-black person about something racist that happened to you, make sure you are not bitter. Don’t complain. Be… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Interestingly enough, I feel what the show [OJ Simpson] was able to accomplish in a really masterful way is that White America… — Sterling K. Brown Copy Share Image
“That night the mosquitoes ate us up. I had bites all over my body. Back home I thought mosquitoes never bit black… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
I'm not saying that things now aren't better for black people. Thank God they're definitely better, but some things are still the… — Titus Kaphar Copy Share Image
Everything the black people are doing comes from the Honorable Elijah Mohammed. They are black now, they don't want to be called… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
The liberal psyche wants to protect minorities, to apologize for imperialism, colonialism, slavery, and the appalling treatment of black people during the… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Even though it's called Music Of Black Origin, it's not just music for black people. Music is for everybody. I think it's… — Alesha Dixon Copy Share Image
Rich people, even rich Black people, can always find a way to game a legal system that was never intended to work… — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
Blackness has always been stigmatised, even amongst black people who flee from the density of that blackness. Some black people recoil from… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
“have you ever heard a black woman weep over her skinmurdered child. it is the splitting of atoms. it is billions of… — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
If women were in charge of everything, there would be women tyrants. If black people were in charge, there would be black… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
There's no white comic that sells tickets to black people like me. They're going to get their hair done, get a new… — Gary Owen Copy Share Image
Redlining went beyond FHA-backed loans and spread to the entire mortgage industry, which was already rife with racism, excluding black people from… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I marvel at the many ways we, as black people, bend but do not break in order to survive. This astonishes me,… — Kristin Hunter Copy Share Image
The black people's struggle has vanquished racism. It was God who created colour. Today Obama, a son of Kenya, a son of… — Muammar al-Gaddafi Copy Share Image
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You don't have a baby based on that publicity madness. People don't live like that. Especially black people who were raised in… — Whitney Houston Copy Share Image
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