People need to realize that because black people have been established in the U.S. for a lot longer than in the U.K.,… — AJ Tracey Copy Share Image
Besides being driven around Manhattan by a chauffeur whose salary his father's company paid, in a Cadillac his father's company leased to… — Mary L. Trump Copy Share Image
Often young black people are looking towards the alternative economies. They are looking towards the drug economy… the economies that are going… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
My theory is that nine times out of ten, if there's a depression, more a social depression than anything, it brings out… — Questlove Copy Share Image
Nobody was keeping me away from black people. There just aren't many in Germany. Without anything to identify with, you grow up… — Rob Pilatus Copy Share Image
The white people who are guilty of white supremacy are trying to hide their own guilt by accusing The Honorable Elijah Muhammad… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“There had been no black people on the household staff of the McCone mansion in Cleveland, no black people in my schools.… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
Atheist Jews double crossers stole our [black people’s] secrets. . . . They give us to worship a dead Jew and not… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
“The struggle being waged today, where there is any struggle being waged at all, is closer to the one that was addressed… — Jonathan Kozol 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
“Imagine for a just a moment, if you will, that the slaves who were brought to America weren’t dark-skinned. Instead, white people… — Aaron B. Powell Copy Share Image
“When we black people commit ourselves to living simply as a political action, as a way of breaking the stress caused by… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
We have to concentrate back on: Where is the money going? Where's it been going for the last thirty years? How do… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Just reading that - just reading that a person can be black and still perform in blackface, making fun of black people… — Cecile McLorin Salvant Copy Share Image
In my opinion, mature political action is the type of action that that involves a program of re-education and information that will… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If we have learned anything in the past ten years, it is that these lovely things about America were never lovely. We… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I would think black people think everything is about race. They are the ones who are on the outside of the game.… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
I think my work shows that I love women. I understand where these types of criticisms are coming from because black people… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
For my grandfather, there was no distinction. There was no tension between his support for civil rights for black people and his… — Megan Phelps-Roper Copy Share Image
Any time a black person has the audacity to tell everybody else that they're also human beings, they are confronted with all… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
I had talked to my agent a lot over the years about not being interested in stereotypical "black films" [because] I didn't… — Zoe Kravitz Copy Share Image
Black people have slavery. And white people have our own thing-stuff we went though that hurt us that we have to cope… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
Anything that could be conceived of that would separate black people from white people was devised and codified by someone in some… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
It isn't that black people are protected in America by the left; it's that black liberals are protected just as female liberals… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed,… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
My job is to be the constructive awakener of the black masses of the world so them know themself and others know… — Peter Tosh Copy Share Image
In some ways, I value specificity. I think that there's power in, once you know who your fan base is, being able… — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
“Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting alone was the big aim, but after that I decided… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
In general, the mass media tell us that black people are not loving, that our lives are so fraught with violence and… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, Bill Clinton was widely perceived as an ally and advocate for the needs of black people. However, it… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
Where are the exhortations for children to reject the self-defeating stereotypes that reduce black people to violent, oversexed 'gangstas,' minstrel show comedians… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
If I just point out the fact that black people hurt each other, too, then we can ignore the fact that other… — Trip Lee Copy Share Image
This feeling African-Americans have, this skepticism towards the police and the skepticism that the police show towards African-Americans is actually quite old.… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
It is our experience that the nation doesn't move around questions of genuine equality for the poor and for black people until… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If the [Vestiges] be true, the labours of sober induction are in vain; religion is a lie; human law is a mass… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
The teachings of Elijah Muhammad on how black people have been brainwashed.How they've been taught to love white and hate black, how… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Black people come in so many different bodies, genders, and sexualities, so it's important that we're conscious of that so we can… — Franchesca Ramsey Copy Share Image
We, the Black people of America, were chosen by Allah: Not to be "special" in the sense that we are better than… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
“Others channeled—or were led to channel—their economic and political frustrations into racist ideas, which then led to more hatred of Black people.… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
![“Atheist Jews double crossers stole our [black people’s] secrets. . . . They give us to worship a dead Jew and not ourselves . . . . Selling fried potatoes and people, the little arty bastards talking arithmetic they sucked from the arab’s head.” quote by Amiri Baraka](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d03/amiri-baraka-8050_arithmetic_atheist-jews-double-crossers-stole-our-b_2800678.jpg)
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