Black people didn't start coming to see me until 1982. I'd…

I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work

— Bill Sienkiewicz

I am very happy for all the players doing the Black Lives Matter bend the knee. We are all in the same boat.

— Abdoulaye Doucoure

I look at modeling as something I'm doing for black people in general.

— Naomi Campbell

I'm doing me up with a black coloured liner.

— Adam Lambert

As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on…

— Naturi Naughton

I'm a black person and when I was growing up I went to a school with no other black people and walked past signs…

— Lenny Henry

What would America be like if we loved black people as much as we loved black culture?

— Amandla Stenberg

Adam Clayton Powell's entire political career has to be looked at in the entire context of the American history and the history of, and…

— Malcolm X

Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within…

— Angela Davis

“Acknowledging that my skin was, in fact, Cocoa as it is, would have destroyed their narrative about who I really was. Therefore they had…

— Mitta Xinindlu

Black Privilege is a concrete motive that black people benefit from, such as racism but racism on whites. Black people don't know it but…

— Anonymous

Hollywood is so fixated on keeping it that way because it's generating the buzz, but that representation isn't right. I definitely feel like it's…

— John Boyega

We have to build our own power. We have to win every single political office we can, where we have a majority of black…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

“In any case, white people, who had robbed black people of their liberty and who profited by this theft every hour that they lived,…

— James Baldwin

I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African…

— Jesmyn Ward