White people must speak out against black racism, no…

Brown people wouldn't speak to someone who was black.

— Alex Haley

Where are Jesse Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton? They don't speak for Black America, and they don't speak for me.

— Darryl Glenn

I think, as a white person, I do not want to speak for a black person.

— Jill Stein

to speak as black, female, and commercial lawyer has rendered me simultaneously universal, trendy, and marginal.

— Patricia J. Williams

I think we need to not speak over black women, not assign them labels.

— Jessica Williams

“I speak to the Black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition--about what we can endure, dream, fail at and survive.”

— Maya Angelou

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

— Maya Angelou

Anti-black racism operates at a society-wide level and colludes in a seamless web of policies, practices, and beliefs to oppress and disempower black communities.

— Opal Tometi

Anti-black racism is not just an Egyptian problem. It exists in many parts of the Arab world.

— Mona Eltahawy

Black racism is a myth created by whites to ease their guilt feelings. As long as whites can be assured that blacks are racists,…

— James H. Cone

Racism as a form of skin worship, and as a sickness and a pathological anxiety for America, is so great, until the poor whites…

— Jesse Jackson

Things like racism are institutionalized. You might not know any bigots. You feel like "well I don't hate black people so I'm not a…

— Dave Chappelle

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

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

— John Lennon

Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

— Martin Luther King, Jr