It's possible and available to any artist to be himself or herself on their own terms, to be accepted and embraced by… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
A lot of times, we talk about black people as if being black is all they are. They get up, go to… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
It's important to tell the story you're telling in the right way, which might involve black people or people of whatever heritage… — Ethan Coen Copy Share Image
People come up and say, 'Thank you' for showing a black family loving their masculine-presenting child and for undoing the myth of… — Yance Ford Copy Share Image
Our problem is that we don't have enough people in America, including black people, who are progressive and willing to sacrifice their… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Look at the people who are kind of the funniest cultures, they're the cultures of the people who have been the most… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
I'm going to be a fashion icon in a minute. I'm not going to do it in a corny manner. I have… — ASAP Rocky Copy Share Image
I came in the gate as an African-American poor kid wanting to be a neurosurgeon but - with American life and the… — Lil B Copy Share Image
In my time since moving to the United States, I've found that there is a dearth of great writing for black people.… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
We treat racism in this country like it's a style that America went through. Like flared legs and lava lamps. Oh, that… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
“ethnic groups, but to say that we don’t divide each other into races would be to ignore thousands of years of human… — C.H. Dalton Copy Share Image
I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
It was just a wonderful experience, one for the memory book for sure. The sad thing about it was that the picture… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
I think that any black man who teaches black people to turn the other cheek and suffer peacefully after they've been turning… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“Watching Paris is Burning, I began to think that the many yuppie-looking, straight -acting, pushy, predominantly white folks in the audience were… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
My father identified as a black man. No one asked him because he was clearly black. But people always ask me. If… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
When Black people seriously organize and take up arms to fight for our liberation, there will be a lot of white people… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
How come the Chinese can go where I can't go in America? Englishmen can come and set up a business in white… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
A lot of people, black, white, mexican, young or old, fat or skinny have a problem being true to they self. They… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws… — H. Rap Brown Copy Share Image
Black people are the only ones told to love our oppressors. I hate that. We've been loving our oppressors for a long… — Charlamagne tha God Copy Share Image
The revolution is that we can be anything. We don't have to be one thing or the other. The idea that it… — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
I think it talks about the fact that there are black people in the world who have tremendous amount of talents and… — Joe Morton Copy Share Image
The United States is not a nation of black and white people. Any fool can see that white people are not really… — Albert Murray Copy Share Image
Imagine if a mob of Black people wanted to go in the White House. Imagine what'd happen. It'd be tear gas. It'd… — Bam Adebayo Copy Share Image
Our decentralized, localized leadership structure has really allowed for Black Lives Matter structures in their own communities to take on the state… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
George Bush doesn't care about black people... They're saying black families are looting and white families are just looking for food... they're… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
It's impossible for 30 million black people to be violent against 170 million - we need a mental revolution, unity in coming… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
I can't identify a race of people in this country who are more committed to the health of this country, who believe… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
We have to stop seeing the skin color. I believe that's the most powerful way to change mentalities and behavior. I had… — Omar Sy Copy Share Image
It is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community.… — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
Black people have been marginalized and kept away from the economics of this country. I think people are starting to understand that… — The D.O.C Copy Share Image
I'm dark-skinned. When I'm around black people, I'm made to feel 'other' because I'm dark-skinned. I've had to wrestle with that, with… — Daniel Kaluuya Copy Share Image
My plays are for the kind of black people who relate to funk music, to Parliament-Funkadelic. When those guys get out of… — Suzan-Lori Parks Copy Share Image
America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
The Mississippi of 1920 was an exceptionally dangerous place for Black people. But my grandfather deeply believed in helping create opportunities to… — Mike Espy Copy Share Image
You have to take your hat off to the homosexual and gay community cause right now they're as strong as black people… — Tyrese Gibson Copy Share Image
The Democratic Party has not changed their ideology toward Black people. It has always been an ideology of control. And when they… — Mark Robinson Copy Share Image
I got into the business because I love writing. When it came down to finding my voice, which every writer has to… — Lena Waithe Copy Share Image
