You see Martin Luther King is dead and Huey Newton is not. And Malcolm X is dead and Bobby Seale is not.… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
“But most Americans cannot comprehend the scrutiny that black people have been under since the days we were dragged here in bondage.… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
In England, you feel like a member of the revolutionary guard the minute you even mention race. But I do think that… — David Harewood Copy Share Image
There is still an assumption among many people that to be black is to be lower class. In the last fifteen to… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
“With every Black first, the blame shifted to those Black people who failed to break away. Du Bois’s The Crisis tried to… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
Once you dive into the African-American struggle or whatever you want to call it and you look past that, you realize that… — Joey Badass Copy Share Image
“In historical terms women, black people in general, were very attracted to very bright-colored clothing. Most people are frightened by color anyway...They… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“But some people don’t want to believe that, because if varying degrees of blackness become normalized, then that means society has to… — Phoebe Robinson Copy Share Image
I remember one summer I played, like, with the granddaughter of this known Klan member. Like, all summer we caught cicadas. And… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
“I tell sincere white people, 'Work in conjunction with us- each of us working among our own kind.' Let sincere white individuals… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Even people who say that black people are minorities, there are a billion black people in the world. A billion white people.… — Daniel Kaluuya Copy Share Image
For black people who are really dark - and a lot of black people were averse to be dark skinned - it… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it.… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
We have seven and a half times as many people in prison. And we have eight times as many black women in… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The magazines were born out of a need that my parents saw: that there were no magazines that really spoke to black… — Linda Johnson Rice Copy Share Image
Since the white people collectively have practiced the worst form of hatred against Negroes in America and they know that they are… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“The fact that some African Americans have experienced great success in recent years does not mean that something akin to a racial… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Black is confusing. Where does the line start and stop with what is black and what isn't black? People that are mixed-race,… — Santan Dave Copy Share Image
I think that the Vietnam War era is important because we tend not to want to revisit it. For black people, there… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
I remember when I had my show [The Chris Rock Show on HBO], I used to run my show. It was so… — Scott Raab Copy Share Image
“We like to keep separate the evils of our national past from the sacredness of our ideals. That separation allows us to… — Eddie S. Glaude Jr Copy Share Image
Everyone else can do violence. You know, Clint Eastwood, Sylvester Stallone, they can all do shoot-'em-ups. Arnold Schwarzenegger can kill 10 people… — Pam Grier Copy Share Image
As far as I was concerned, the Panthers were 'baaaaaad.' The Party was more than bad; it was bodacious. The sheer audacity… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
If Id lived prior to the 1980s, it would have been different, because I would have been playing to prove African Americans… — Venus Williams Copy Share Image
“And now the lies of the Civil War and the lies of these post-racial years began to resonate with each other, and… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
When someone asks me about violence, I just find it incredible, because what it means is that the person who’s asking that… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
We [black people] don't respect our elders. Besides artists, we don't respect Frederick Douglass. We don't respect Martin Luther King. You look… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
There are places and spaces for black writers to write about race as a central thing. It's important. We're still dealing with… — Kwame Alexander Copy Share Image
You have a plantation where you have 10 white people and you have about 50 or 60 black people. The automatic thought… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
For black people in the western hemisphere, if you can't generate a mythology that creates models of heroism and power out of… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
“One of racism’s harms is the way it falls on the unexceptional Black person who is asked to be extraordinary just to… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
The short-range involves the long-range. Immediate steps have to be taken to reeducate our people into the, a more real view of… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The true story is that black people need to tell their history. Very few films are made by black people about slavery.… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
Part of the history of black people in the western hemisphere, in some ways, has been fleeing from this notion that they… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
“You may have heard the talk of diversity, sensitivity training, and body cameras. These are all fine and applicable, but they understate… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Any black person who clings to the misguided notion that white people represent the embodiment of all that is evil and black… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Growing up as a black kid with a white father who loves you, who affirms you, who was part of your life… — Benjamin Jealous Copy Share Image
Anyone who understands anti-racist work, a white person specifically, understands that it is not black people's responsibility, or any person of color's… — Kelela Copy Share Image
What I preserved in the figures [at Invisible Man] are those white eyes and white teeth, because that's still connected to the… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
“The cause of the rumpus, he said, was that Boers at their own homes never allow black people to drink out of… — Sol T. Plaatje Copy Share Image
![“I remember when I had my show [The Chris Rock Show on HBO], I used to run my show. It was so hard to get people to bring sketches to me. No one had ever worked for a black person before. Even the black people hadn't worked for a black person. It literally took a month or two for everybody to know…” quote by Scott Raab](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/0d3/scott-raab-19060_black_i-remember-when-i-had-my-show-the-chris_1998393.png)
![“We [black people] don't respect our elders. Besides artists, we don't respect Frederick Douglass. We don't respect Martin Luther King. You look at every Martin Luther King Boulevard out here, and it's a crack block. That's not because of white people. That's because of black leadership. We just…” quote by KRS-One](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/92d/krs-one-2404_art_we-black-people-don-t-respect-our-elders_1985041.png)
![“What I preserved in the figures [at Invisible Man] are those white eyes and white teeth, because that's still connected to the way in which blackness, in the extreme, has been stigmatized and the way it was often joked that you couldn't see black people in the dark until they had their eyes open…” quote by Kerry James Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/19a/kerry-james-marshall-5157_black_what-i-preserved-in-the-figures-at-invis_2863321.jpg)
