The unemployment rate is still twice as high for blacks as for whites. — William Weld Copy Share Image
Whitey is uptight about offending blacks without really knowing what offends blacks. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
Gun-related violence and murders are concentrated among blacks and Latinos in big cities. — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
I like suits that are fitted. And I usually stick to grays, whites, and blacks. — Liam Hemsworth Copy Share Image
“It's just too easy for a gay black man to drown amid the names of dead black gay men.” — Saeed Jones Copy Share Image
Blacks have a special history, since they were enslaved and were here as early as the first Americans. I hate to sound… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated… — Ed Smith Copy Share Image
Blacks, especially in America, have been raised with a slave mentality - they don't feel that they have the right to speak… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
“For no matter what the factual data were, all the books written about Blacks by their conquerors reflected the conquerors viewpoints. Nothing… — Chancellor Williams Copy Share Image
“Emmanuel started learning the basics of his Blackness before he knew how to do long division: smiling when angry, whispering when he… — Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Copy Share Image
“Chances are that there are white people who brag about being the first to move out of a suburb that has been… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Light and darkness both carry beauty; it’s not the color but the soul that defines them. So not always in white—angels come… — Mohammed Zaki Ansari Copy Share Image
Democrats in Louisville were led by Courier-Journal editor Henry Watterson and were implacably opposed to blacks voting. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
When I worked picking cotton as a boy with my grandparents, when blacks were moral and hard-working, we loved the country, too.… — Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
If blacks were given the right to vote, that would place every splay-footed, bandy-shanked, hump-backed, thick-lipped, flat-nosed, woolly-headed, ebon-colored in the country… — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
From the moment we were first dumped in Jamestown and had our teeth checked before getting sold off and later considered three-fifths… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
“To blacks, it was abundantly clear what groups like the NAACP and CORE wanted; the NOI, by contrast and largely by design,… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
Most of the people I've met who are black in other countries look up to the blacks in this country. Though they… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
I used to work in the cotton fields a lot when I was young. There were a lot of African Americans working… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
“The black officer checks Daddy while his partner glances around at all of the onlookers. There's quite a few of us now.… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
“Hadar, the only time I feel black is when I look at my hands," Spencer said, spreading his fingers out in front… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
“And she got the feeling that Boots Smith's relationship to this swiftly moving car was no ordinary one. He wasn't just a… — Ann Petry Copy Share Image
“I thought about how Juneteenth is a holiday that inspires so much celebration, born from circumstances imbued with so much tragedy. Enslavers… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
“Since 1865, when the [Thirteenth] Amendment was passed, Black men were getting charged, set up, arrested, and convicted for the pettiest of… — Amy Watkins Copy Share Image
“The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time that she… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“We need a powerful sense of determination to banish the ugly blemish of racism scarring the image of America. We can, of… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“Black females, for the most part, know by the time they are ten years old that the world is not much concerned… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Jimmy said, "We survived slavery. Think about that. Not because we were strong. The American Indians were strong, and they were on… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“The things white folks put people through--my god, cruel in ways I just can't even reconcile. Should be ashamed for a thousand… — Cebo Campbell Copy Share Image
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