“I hate it when Africans fail to simply celebrate our features, without reminding us of the traumas they carry. Instead of making… — Mitta Xinindlu Copy Share Image
Light-skinned black people are seen to be closer to white people. The allegiance to lighter-skinned people has operated in a very destructive… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I think that we need more economic-based solutions to the problems afflicting the Black community, and I think that that's a way… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“Babylon was the government that had outlawed them, the police that had pummeled and killed them. Babylon was the church that damned… — Safiya Sinclair Copy Share Image
Black History Month is a great celebration for Black people everywhere. I just hope we get to the point as Black people… — Crystal Robinson Copy Share Image
The only thing I really feel is necessary is that the black people, not only in Mississippi, will have to actually upset… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
In America, the poor have been invisibilised, because obviously this model of success that has been held out to the world must… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Most of the things I'm talking about are essential human rights. I don't think it should be political to say that children… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
Not only have we paid the price with our names in ink, but we have also paid in blood. And they can't… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
“Most white people in Midland City were insecure when they spoke, so they kept their sentences short and their words simple, in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What frustrates me is to see African-Americans behave as though what European-Americans say is worthwhile. It simply isn't. It's just some silly… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
When you go to a church and you see the pastor of that church with a philosophy and a program that's designed… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
In the final analysis, national struggle is a matter of class struggle. Among the whites in the United States, it is only… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
“There is a notion out there that black people enjoy the Sisyphean struggle against racism. In fact, most of us live for… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
That's just how white folks will do you. It wasn't merely the cruelty involved; I was learning that black people could be… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I have just as much right to stay in America - in fact, the black people have contributed more to America than… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
“The cities change. The bus line is different. The train runs on another track, but the scene is the same. Everyday in… — Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor Copy Share Image
When I started, I was aware of using the black as a rhetorical device. It's understanding that black people come in a… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
“Whiteness is not a kinship or a culture. White people are no more closely related to one another, genetically, that we are… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
“Acknowledging that my skin was, in fact, Cocoa as it is, would have destroyed their narrative about who I really was. Therefore… — Mitta Xinindlu Copy Share Image
“You who came of age in the past decade have had eight years of a Black U.S. president, and that gloss looked… — Mohja Kahf Copy Share Image
If we [black people] do not show up and support the march towards cinematic equality, the march towards being on a level… — Terrence Howard Copy Share Image
“These efforts curtailed the ability of black people to buy better housing, to move to better neighborhoods, and to build wealth. Also,… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Tragedy happens - "tragic mistakes" happen - when men act according to their flawed natures, in fulfillment of their preordained destinies. The… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Frank Marshall Davis, the former Communist who was Obama’s mentor in Hawaii, was so radical that he opposed President Truman’s Marshall Plan… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
“Rev. [Martin Luther] King continued, chanting, singing his prophetic litany. We were one people, indivisible in the sight of God, responsible to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Im very connected to my community and I want black people to know that I havent abandoned them because Ive had a… — Halle Berry Copy Share Image
In my opinion while lynchings were quite possibly the most heinous crimes ever witnessed in American history, they helped in bringing people… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
“In Chicago, two days later, two black people beat and robbed a “white boy” in revenge for Trayvon. Eighteen-year-old Alton Hayes III… — Colin Flaherty Copy Share Image
Only black people in the whole neighborhood, so let's break it down: Me, I'm a decent comedian, I'm a'ight. Mary J. Blige,… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
Richard exhaled. It was like somebody sprinkling pepper on his wound: Thousands of Biafrans were dead, and this man wanted to know… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
It had long been true, and prisoners knew this better than anyone, that the poorer you were the more likely you were… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
When you think of the KKK, they actually have as their emblem a fiery cross. And they don't see any contradiction between… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“Politically progressive black people on the Left who are not nationalist, like myself, share a perspective that promotes the eradication of white… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
I think in order to achieve real change, we as the black community need to come up with real asks and we… — Maverick Carter Copy Share Image
It's so important to create roles and characters and projects that feature black people in a way that's not specifically targeted toward… — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
“With Notes on the State of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson emerged as the preeminent American authority on Black intellectual inferiority. This status would… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
You're going to have a racial explosion, and a racial explosion is more dangerous than an atomic explosion. It's going to explode… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Look at how lucky white people are compared to black people, who have suffered so much just because of their skin color,… — Severn Cullis-Suzuki Copy Share Image
Black people need some peace. White people need some peace. And we are going to have to fight. We're going to have… — Fred Hampton Copy Share Image
![“Not only have we paid the price with our names in ink, but we have also paid in blood. And they can't say that black people can't be intelligent, because going back to Africa, in Guinea, there are almost 4 million people there and what he, President [Sekou] Toure, is doing to educate the people…” quote by Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/283/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_being-done_not-only-have-we-paid-the-price-with-our_1433519.jpg)
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