There's a way that white people and black people spoke in the '70s that is nothing like how they speak now. They… — Michael Jai White Copy Share Image
We're going to start seeing that it's actually less about race and more about class in the future. As much as we… — Pharrell Williams Copy Share Image
It was natural to see the struggle for dignity for black people in America as a sister struggle of the Jewish struggle.… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country: that's the… — H. Rap Brown Copy Share Image
The old racism of imperialism not only rendered the postwar political elite unable to see black people as full British citizens, it… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
I didn't run into racism until we moved to Nassau when I was ten and a half, but it was vastly different… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
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There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
A lot of black people worked with the police as snitches. We used to call them bimpees where I grew up. And,… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
The laws of spiritual physics will not allow you to lead somebody that you don't love, that you don't care about, that… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
“Slavery is not an indefinable mass of flesh. It is a particular, specific enslaved woman, whose mind is active as your own,… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
No, I’m not an American. I’m one of 22 million black people who are the victims of Americanism. One of the …… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We [Black people] have always used our creativity to battle and we're not the only ones. Black Americans are certainly leaders in… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Farrakhan got everybody together for the Million Man March and everything. But Farrakhan don't like the Jews. Which is bugged. I get… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
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You know, you walk through this hotel, you're not going to see all white people; you're not going to see all black… — George Lopez Copy Share Image
Why would you create a movie for black people if you don't understand the history and perspective of the people you are… — Tim Reid Copy Share Image
Black people created punk - the band Death was way before The Ramones. Same with Bad Brains. If you think about it,… — Princess Nokia Copy Share Image
Do not be naive. AIDS is not a curse from God to Africans or the black people. It is a tool to… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
The boundless capacity of the African American spirit in this country to say Hallelujah anyhow, to use our joy as a weapon,… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Many thought that the abolition of slavery, the end of Jim Crow, and the legislative progress of the Civil Rights Era, among… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
I didn't like The Wiz and it wasn't because black people were doing it. I didn't like The Wiz because it was… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
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If I just wanted to put clean, perfect images of black people on the screen for an hour and a half, first… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black… — A. Philip Randolph Copy Share Image
When I look at American history, I see how it has been driven by resistance and protest against a system that has… — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
You go through the Civil Rights struggle, everybody knew the songs - 'We shall overcome.' Everybody would sing it. Music helped us.… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
Black people invented jazz. But this story [in La La Land] wasn't ever claiming to be that. It's just a story about… — John Legend Copy Share Image
I would suggest is that in the latter 1990s it is extremely important to look at the predicament of black people within… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Yet, when Republicans were finally able to push through tough policies on crime and welfare which they'd supported for decades, they were… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
It's time for Black people to stop playing the separating game of geography, of where the slave ship put us down. We… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Like I tell people they wind up having short term pleasure and long term pain. I'm a tell what Minister Louis Farrakhan… — Mr. T Copy Share Image
Black and awkward is the worst, because black people are stereotyped as being anything but awkward in mainstream media... Black people are… — Issa Rae Copy Share Image
Jim Crow segregation was bipartisan. The refusal of women suffrage was bipartisan. The denial of the basic dignity of members of the… — Raphael Warnock Copy Share Image
Why can't we have fine black restaurants with fine service by black people who always gave good service? Because we thought that… — Leah Chase Copy Share Image
As black people, we want our story to be this constant ascendance from slavery. But it's not like that. You push and… — Stanley Nelson Jr Copy Share Image
One of the worst things that happened to black people in America historically is integration. People ask me why I say that… — David Banner Copy Share Image
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