I am a Simple and Understanding Soldier fighting neither…

And so this is Xmas for black and for white, for yellow and red, let's stop all the fight.

— John Lennon

People keep telling me about the white race and the black race - and it really doesn't make sense. I played Miami, met a…

— Dick Gregory

“It struck me that perhaps the defining feature of being drafted into the black race was the inescapable robbery of time, because the moments…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him,…

— Charles Barron

I used to joke for years that I was a black man. I adopted the black culture, the black race. I married a black…

— Tommy Chong

I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

— Abraham Lincoln

“It is the beginning of the year of our Lord 1963. I see a young Negro boy. He is sitting on a stoop in…

— Martin Luther King Jr

If ever America undergoes great revolutions, they will be brought about by the presence of the black race on the soil of the United…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“The “rising tide” theory rested on a notion of separate but equal class ladders. And so there was a class of black poor and…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Ham will continue to be servant of servants, as the Lord decreed, until the curse is removed. will the present struggle free the slave?…

— Brigham Young

I certainly wasn't seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students. My homemade education gave me, with every…

— Alex Haley

I don't like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

I want to make it clear that the black race did not come to the United States culturally empty-handed. The role and importance of…

— John Henrik Clarke

I want to hear the chanting Around a heathen fire Of a strange black race.

— Anonymous

I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is physical difference between the two which,…

— Abraham Lincoln