When is black America going to forgive white America for…

In the era of slavery, you could be a so-called Afro-Cuban one day and a so-called Black American the next day, or vice versa.…

— Gerald Horne

The history of black America was from slavery, oppression, civil rights, and you felt kind of isolated as an entity in our country.

— Rza

It's not anything that is just perpetuated by White America or just perpetuated by Black America. It's just a cultural understanding that you're just…

— Viola Davis

I think there's a sort of, you know, very thin way of reading this that says, well, Barack Obama is biracial thus that gives…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

It is not the destiny of Black America to repeat white America's mistakes. But we will, if we mistake the trappings of success in…

— Audre Lorde

There is not a black America and a white America; a Latino America, an Asian America. There is the United States of America.

— Barack Obama

When the Kerner Commission told white America what black America has always known, that prejudice and hatred built the nation’s slums, maintains them and…

— Shirley Chisholm

White America is tortured by black America's failure to thrive, and all that guilt and anxiety has only gotten worse as a substantial quota…

— James Howard Kunstler

Black America now has the power to achieve economic inclusion, which we rightfully deserve because we built this country. This is a conversation that…

— Byron Allen

“For the African race, such as Providence has made it, and where He has placed it in America, slavery was the righteous, the best,…

— Robert Lewis Dabney

If you want to understand America, it's slavery.

— Colson Whitehead

Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.

— Angela Davis

“Since neither black animosity nor the Left’s falsehood of “racial tensions” is based on the actual behavior of the vast majority of white Americans,…

— Dennis Prager

To be white in America is to assume, with total self-confidence and little afterthought, the personal ownership of public spaces.

— Joy Reid

What White America and Black America wanted and expected from Obama were fundamentally different and opposite things.

— Joy Reid