It's hard to pin down what it means to be an evangelical today. It's been diluted quite a bit. It is a… — Franklin Graham Copy Share Image
“When's the election?" "Next Tuesday. Y'all niggers going to vote for me?" A slender snaggle-toothed boy waved his hand in front of… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
“The history of slavery is the history of the United States. It was not peripheral to our founding; it was central to… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
A Black man should be more independent and depend on himself for his freedom and not to take it for granted that… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
Given the historical power differential between blacks and whites, blacks are required to be attentive to the way their white counterparts see… — James A. Forbes Copy Share Image
The most valuable blacks are those in prison, those who have the warrior spirit, who had a sense of being African. They… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
After the Civil War, when blacks fought along whites to secure freedom for all, southern states enacted Black Codes, laws that restricted… — Niger Innis Copy Share Image
“There was something lacking in these ofay places of amusement or else there was something present that one didn’t find in the… — George S. Schuyler Copy Share Image
“Donna and Grace and so many people—specifically white people—often have understood slavery, and those held in its grip, only in abstract terms.… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
“In America the magazines in which one can frequently publish stories or poems about Negroes are very few, and most of these… — Langston Hughes 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
“Lieutenant Thomas R. Gilligan, thirty-seven, was off duty and out of uniform, checking out TVs in an electronics store. He went to… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“It is due, however, to my mistress to say of her, that she did not adopt this course of treatment immediately. She… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
All right-wing antigovernment rage in America bears a racial component, because liberalism is understood, consciously or unconsciously, as the ideology that steals… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
“I asked [my grandfather] if there would ever be an America in which white Americans were not actively working to keep themselves… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
I'm really busted up over this and I'm very, very sorry to those people in the audience, the blacks, the Hispanics, whites… — Michael Richards Copy Share Image
“This was, by comparison, a safe, secure, clean world. And looking at it, she thought it must be rather pleasant to be… — Ann Petry Copy Share Image
That's the way blacks have been encouraged to think: that we got to stick together. You've got a situation today where if… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
We must recognize that all the civil rights laws in the world are not going to solve the problem of minority underachievement.… — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
I grew up on the north side of Chicago, in West Rogers Park, an overwhelmingly Jewish neighborhood. When I was 13, my… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
I have lived a life that has been beautiful and painful at some moments. But I am convinced others can learn how… — Jayson Blair Copy Share Image
Whites know never tell blacks what you really think and what you really feel because you risk being seen as a racist.… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
The Afrocentric exploration of the black past only scratches the surface. A full examination of the ancestry of those who are referred… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
“We jumped into a waiting bus, and two Negro laborers followed us. We did not drop any money in the slot; the… — Carlos Bulosan Copy Share Image
All token Blacks have the same experience. I have been pointed at as a solution to things that have not yet begun… — Leontyne Price Copy Share Image
The ethic of liberal individualism has so deeply permeated the psyches of blacks... of all classes that we have little support for… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
“African-American writers with an independent vision are often consigned to obscurity. The white critics can only tolerate one black writer at a… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
To put it simply, as a black man, I started watching films at the age of six, and I've since seen the… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
“Since the white man's personality is greatly distorted by segregation, and his soul is greatly scarred, he needs the love of the… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“She's scared, he thought. She's scared deaf, dumb, and blind. She thinks I'm going to rape her. I'm due to rape her,… — Ann Petry Copy Share Image
For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from racist to learned-sounding - the supposed inferiority… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
Why don't we hear more about and from Asians when it comes to race in America? Are Asians the new Invisible Man… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
While he was in the service, in the South and in Oklahoma, he was refused service at a couple of places where… — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
For decades, many blacks were reluctant to pursue a profession that was associated with servitude. If you went to school, it was… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
Seven out of 10 black faces you see on television are athletes. The black athlete carries the image of the black community.… — Arthur Ashe Copy Share Image
My family's support and the negative environment of the day toward blacks in South Carolina became the forces that led me out… — Joe Frazier Copy Share Image
Blacks commit murder eight times more per capita than any other group in our society. If I had put all of my… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
The Jewish background is not that far from the black groove. Blacks are downtrodden, Jews are downtrodden, therefore they have something in… — Jerry Leiber Copy Share Image
“I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to… — Martin Luther King Jr 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 each other and for each other. We, the black people, the most displaced, the poorest, the most maligned and scourged, we had the glorious task of…” quote by Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/eb2/maya-angelou-104_african-americans_rev-martin-luther-king-continued-chantin_2784543.png)
![“I asked [my grandfather] if there would ever be an America in which white Americans were not actively working to keep themselves positioned atop the racial hierarchy. He thought for a moment and then said, "Some of them will never give it up.” quote by Clint Smith](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8e6/clint-smith-4108_america_i-asked-my-grandfather-if-there-would-ev_2379426.jpg)
