The only way the two can have equal job opportunities is if black people have factories as, as well as white people… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
To me, entertainment is really the new plantation. It's the new sugar, the new cotton, that black people work for somebody else… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
“black people frequently disqualified themselves even without the WHITES ONLY sign in view” — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
I don't stand for the black side, I don't stand for white side, I stand for GODS side. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everything about us black people is complicated, us being here, being a minority, being a woman, all those things are complicated. — Nicole Beharie Copy Share Image
We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us. — Evelyn Boyd Granville Copy Share Image
Actually, some of the things I experienced as a child still linger on; what the white man has done to the black… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts. — Trisha Goddard Copy Share Image
Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty,… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
So I was really excited when I came to America about meeting black people. But it was a huge culture shock, because… — Jodie Turner-Smith Copy Share Image
Music in the U.K. is not racialised in the same way as it is in the U.S. In the U.S.. it's more… — Kelela Copy Share Image
What we acknowledged as a nation during the one-and-a-half year trial of George Zimmerman is that the white majority's public imagination of… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
A lot of young black people in America, and even in Africa and Brazil, would say that they are telling their story,… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
I'm totally in love with Jane Austen and have always been in love with Jane Austen. I did my dissertation at university… — Naomie Harris Copy Share Image
Black people are the only segment in American society that is defined by its weakest elements. Every other segment is defined by… — Jewell Jackson McCabe Copy Share Image
“Although there was always generosity in the Negro neighborhood, it was indulged on pain of sacrifice. Whatever was given by Black people… — Maya Angelou 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
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
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
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
“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
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
I love therapy. I talk about it a lot because I feel like, especially among black people, it's stigmatized. — Nicole Byer Copy Share Image
Because I'm black, people think I'm not capable of being delicate, only athletic. — Michaela DePrince Copy Share Image
I am tired of people telling me that black people are beneath a standard when we have to be twice as good… — Angela Rye Copy Share Image
We're hip to the fact that Superman never saved no black people. You got that? — Bobby Seale Copy Share Image
Ben Carson said black people worked for less. I have breaking news: we built this joint for free. We didn't build it… — Angela Rye Copy Share Image
If you think black people have a motivation problem, open up a Wal-Mart and advertise a thousand jobs. Watch 5,000 people show up. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
In the gun game, we are the most hunted. The river of blood that washes the streets of our nation flows mostly… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
They don't make red noses to fit black people. I have a wide nose like a Volkswagen and I have never had… — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“the only thing wrong with Black people is that we think something is wrong with Black people.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
The Clintons use black people for votes but then don't do anything for black communities after they're elected. They use us for… — Alicia Garza Copy Share Image
Even if its a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 whites. — Gary Owen Copy Share Image
Poor white people and poor black people just don't know how much they have in common. Rich people don't give a damn… — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today. — Buchi Emecheta Copy Share Image
According To Black Parents , You Aint Grown Until You Paying Bills In The House. — Deon Crockett Jr Copy Share Image
White people: 'OMG! I LOVE THIS SONG!' Black people: 'OH HELL YEAH NIGGA THIS IS MY SHIT!' — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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