My black brothers and sisters - of all religious beliefs, or of no religious beliefs - we all have in common the… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I'd like to state that Spike Lee is not saying that African American culture is just for black people alone to enjoy… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
There was a certain feeling I developed as a young person for black people. Somehow they were able to get pleasure out… — Sam Phillips Copy Share Image
When I found photography, I found this other kind of portraiture of black families and black people who were photographing themselves or… — Amy Sherald Copy Share Image
As much as I think it is necessary and desirable for white people to have an expanded view of the black American… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
I say if black people don't unite and begin to support themselves, their communities and their families, they might as well begin… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Whenever black folks speak candidly about the horrors of police brutality, the default reaction in the United States isn't to start disrupting… — Jemele Hill Copy Share Image
I've always maintained that black people and women suffer from a presumption of incompetence. The burdens of proof are different. It just… — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share Image
“In the 1920s, Jim Crow Mississippi was, in all facets of society, a kleptocracy. The majority of the people in the state… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Responding to Wright’s critique, Hurston claimed that she had wanted at long last to write a black novel, and “not a treatise… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
If we study history and anthropology we will find that all over the world the original people are Black people who migrated… — Runoko Rashidi Copy Share Image
There is a forgotten black middle class in America - a group which is huge but underrepresented in the media and in… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
I'm looking at the head of the household, and the house hasn't been run properly for a long time, ... Clinton was… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
“I want to correct something I told you once,' she says. 'You asked me once if I thought white people wish that… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
As a Christian when I watched the people in Katrina they lost everything. I'm not just speaking about the Black people, I'm… — Mr. T Copy Share Image
“To discourage slaves from meeting or escaping, slave owners told tales of gruesome research done on black bodies, then covered themselves in… — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
If half-black Barack Obama had decided years ago to call himself white - which his genes certainly entitled him to do -… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
Just as the white man and every other person on this earth has God-given rights, natural rights, civil rights, any kind of… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“Jim Crow dominated the lives of black people in America from 1890 well into the twentieth century. From conception to coffin, there… — Carol Anderson Copy Share Image
Do you have any idea what Ali meant to black people? He was the leader of a nation, the leader of Black… — Reggie Jackson Copy Share Image
I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
Twenty-five, 30 years ago, the barometer of human rights in the United States were black people. That is no longer true. The… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
It's bizarre: I've tried to understand why people are into Trump. I really don't think I can. I don't think it's as… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
I grew up in a small Southern town, and there were white people and black people. Coming to New York to go… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I personally don't enjoy films that bring black people down. I find that a majority of the films that black people are… — Drake Copy Share Image
I do think we can be a little less PC when it comes to sports, though. Just once I want to hear… — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image
For a musician to be good, he has to have humanity and care about the other guy. And as for blues -… — Harry Dean Stanton Copy Share Image
“Mark Twain made black people look like buffoons," [says Michael]. Mort doesn't look up. He doesn't know what we're talking about, but… — Paul Acampora Copy Share Image
Look at black people dying and suffering in South Africa. I ask why. We've dropped bombs on no one, we've harmed no… — Ron Dellums Copy Share Image
Sometimes it seems as if I have spent the first half of my life refusing to let white people define me and… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I think black people have to be in control of their own image because film is a powerful medium. We can't just… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
Latinos outnumber Black people now. I'm not too happy about it. Because it's only a matter of time before we lose our… — Alonzo Bodden Copy Share Image
“Has this situation made you fearful of cops?" she eventually asks. "I don't know," I say truthfully. "My uncle's a cop. I… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
The working-class Africans are not doing very well, and one of the problems is their education is so shocking. It is routinely… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
America that is divided against itself cannot stand, and we cannot say we have all of this unity they say we have… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
If you're to look at people's social networks, not a lot of white people have a social network that has lots of… — Alicia Garza Copy Share Image
People say that it was degrading for an Olympic champion to run against a horse, but what was I supposed to do?… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
![“Mark Twain made black people look like buffoons," [says Michael]. Mort doesn't look up. He doesn't know what we're talking about, but that doesn't stop him from joining the conversation. "Michael," says Mort, "Mark Twain made everybody look like buffoons. He was an equal opportunity buffoon maker.” quote by Paul Acampora](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/090/paul-acampora-25334_black-people_mark-twain-made-black-people-look-like-b_3118392.jpg)
