“That's the hate they're giving us, baby, a system designed against us. That's Thug Life.” — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
As blacks, all we got is sports and entertainment. That's the only way out the hood sometimes. — Trey Songz Copy Share Image
Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The party of Lincoln should be reaching out to blacks, Hispanics gays and so forth and so on. — Michael Huffington Copy Share Image
There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society. — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
What you want, a Bentley? Fur coat? A diamond chain? All you blacks want all the same things. — Kanye West Copy Share Image
In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee. — David Dinkins Copy Share Image
“& lord knows I have been called by what I look like more than I have been called by what I actually am” — Hanif Abdurraqib Copy Share Image
I disagree with the prevailing point of view of some black leaders that special treatment for blacks is acceptable. — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
Why should blacks feel elated about seeing men walk on the moon when millions of poor blacks and whites don't have enough… — Marion Barry Copy Share Image
Producers have stopped hiring Blacks just because of pressure. They see there's a market out there. The name of the game is… — Paula Kelly Copy Share Image
It's passing strange that Obama, carried to a second term by women, blacks and Latinos, chooses to give away the plumiest Cabinet… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
“On the Subject of Non-American Blacks Suffering from Illnesses Whose Names They Refuse to Know.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Blacks wеrе nоt allowed tо ѕhоw рubliс аffесtiоn toward one another in рubliс, еѕресiаllу kiѕѕing, bесаuѕе it offended whitеѕ.” — Adam Brown Copy Share Image
Sociologists in the 1960s, reaching for an explanation of why cities were burning, often spoke of the problem of 'rising expectations.' It… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
“Daddy once told me there's a rage passed down to every black man from his ancestors, born the moment they couldn't stop… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
[A]ffirmative action in the United States has made blacks. . .who have largely lifted themselves out of poverty, look like people who… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
As I look out there and see the culture of baseball, a lot of blacks and Latins, it's given me a lot… — Billy Williams Copy Share Image
“In the context of the Negro problem neither whites nor blacks, for excellent reasons of their own, have the faintest desire to… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
You hear blacks are good in sports and good singers. But you don't hear about black lawyers or black politicians. I learned… — Rob Pilatus Copy Share Image
Blacks are supposed to rejoice whenever our way of life becomes more mainstream. We seldom do. For we see in it a… — Lena Williams Copy Share Image
“I understand now that the only time black people don't feel guilty is when we've actually done something wrong, because that relieves… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
“Well, of course," Camilo said, and grinned back at JohnRolandJoseph and his long line of bought and paid for ancestors, as friendly… — Ann Petry Copy Share Image
“I thought I had it all figured out. I thought of racism as an inanimate, immortal system, not as a living, recognizable,… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“Yet, if the American Negro has arrived at his identity by virtue of the absoluteness of his estrangement from his past, American… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“The idea that blacks, or anyone for that matter, need the government to get ahead in life is despicable. And even more… — Elbert Guillory Copy Share Image
“But race in the United States is not a tidy matter. Only three of the submitted pieces explicitly referenced the future. Most… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“The attendant looked at Camilo, looked at Link, blandly, incuriously. Link thought, In New York all the black boys who go in… — Ann Petry Copy Share Image
“The women work because the white folks give them jobs—washing dishes and clothes and floors and windows. The women work because for… — Ann Petry Copy Share Image
“I suggest that those who live in the past don't want a confrontation with the present. I believe that white Americans welcome… — Saul D. Alinsky Copy Share Image
“because white men can't police their imagination black people are dying” — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
Screw State! State's always on the side of the blacks. The hell with them! — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
They [the blacks] had no rights which the white man was bound to respect. — Roger Brooke Taney Copy Share Image
Obama kept blacks broke and angry the entire eight years he was in office. — Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
Blacks essentially play the race card, when necessary as a counter to white privilege. — Jonathan Coleman Copy Share Image
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