“Blacktivitiy" Bespattered with brilliant stars shining bright And suspended over the splendid, sable sea. Though all His works are wondrous beauties, God’s… — D.B. Mays Copy Share Image
The films of Warhol, when they are about anything are about sucking people off. This can be high art, to people who… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
It's built into the fabric of this country, you know - oppressing black people socially, politically and economically. They all kind of… — Maverick Carter Copy Share Image
We live in a racially imbalanced society and we always have been. Black people have been traditionally disenfranchised and abused and misused… — Simone Missick Copy Share Image
The scheme, my dear Marqs. which you propose as a precedent, to encourage the emancipation of the black people of this Country… — George Washington Copy Share Image
A lot of racism going on in the world right now. Who's more racist? Black people or white people? Black people. You… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
When I walk into work and I see a predominantly white room, I'm like, 'But why?' It doesn't need to be like… — Leigh-Anne Pinnock Copy Share Image
I don't favor violence. If we could bring about recognition and respect of our people by peaceful means, well and good. Everybody… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“If I survived at all, it would be a triumph. If I swam, it would be a miracle. As I unlocked my… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There is a natural disgust in the minds of nearly all white people to the idea of indiscriminate amalgamation of the white… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I would like to say that whites jumped right behind Malcolm X. They’re makin’ a book about him, it’s required readin’ in… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
“Needless to say, this fragile experiment began by taking for granted the ugly conquest of Amerindians and Mexicans, the exclusion of women,… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
We have landowners, small growers. We have people who are holding onto land that was acquired by their families after slavery. They… — Shirley Sherrod Copy Share Image
“I want to live in a liberated intersectional society. As long as inequality and discrimination exists, I cannot be satisfied with the… — Malebo Sephodi Copy Share Image
“...(I)t can be stated that the spread of the ideology connecting Africa and black people in general with the Jews has been… — Tudor Parfitt Copy Share Image
“public statements condemning segregation, sharply worded telegrams to Washington, and meetings with White House officials—were demonstrably ineffectual. New and more dramatic measures… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
I want black people to have a normal life, if it wasn't for that I would have given up by now. I… — Vinicius Junior Copy Share Image
The Democrats pretended to care about black people for about five minutes to help their electoral process, and then civil rights suddenly… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
I believe that Christianity trains black people, especially black women, to think like slaves, and I believe that Islam is mainly fueled… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
Imagine a film such as Inception with an entire cast of black people – do you think it would be successful? Would… — Idris Elba Copy Share Image
“the discrimination was ignored or discounted, and the fiscal habits of Black people were blamed for the growing fiscal inequities and segregation… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
The Black church is extremely important in Black America. I think most Americans themselves believe in a divine power, in a god,… — Harry Lennix Copy Share Image
Black people have been qualified to be president for hundreds of years. George Washington Carver could have been president. I could go… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
Even though Blackness isn't a monolith, there are things that for Black people in the U.S. and globally are shared experiences. I… — Ayo Edebiri Copy Share Image
I went to Wellesley College, and it was really hard for me to get a job after I graduated. I would go… — Chirlane McCray Copy Share Image
Living in a state of terror was new to many white people in America, but black people have been living in a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I was asked for years about being a Republican, probably because most black people are Democrats. My mother heard it once and… — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good. To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
That kind of thing happens to black people every day in this country, and they don't receive that kind of sentence he… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
A lot of people of color and the Black Lives Matter movement will talk about what's really happening, but it seems like… — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
The reality is, because of access to film, you don't have a lot of black people who want to go behind the… — Michael Ealy Copy Share Image
In Germany, you have to see that there are not a lot of black people in the media. I am a tiny… — Motsi Mabuse Copy Share Image
Black people, if I may, we don't get a lot of opportunities to do a lot of different things outside the norm,… — Tituss Burgess Copy Share Image
One lady told me that before she saw 'Sounder' she didn't believe black people could love each other, have deep relationships in… — Cicely Tyson Copy Share Image
'The Cosby Show' was a show about black people that was fundamentally and unequivocally friendly to whiteness and to white people. The… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
And what happens a lot of times when - let's just speak specifically white and black - when white or black people… — Regina King Copy Share Image
What Black Consciousness seeks to do is to produce real black people who do not regard themselves as appendages to white society.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself, and that is what has happened to the American… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
When I came to England it wasn't what it is now, then the black people were very rarely strong. I had a… — Buchi Emecheta Copy Share Image
The projects that I end up doing, that I want to be involved with in any way, have always been projects that… — Chadwick Boseman Copy Share Image
