We created #BlackLivesMatter. We created a platform. We…

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

I didn't see spaces where female artists could exist and exhibit their work. So I created a platform for this - one that allowed…

— Petra Collins

My company created a platform called Modlife, this prepackaged website that runs an artist's website.

— Tom DeLonge

You can't just repurpose old material created for one platform, throw it up on another one, and then be surprised when everyone yawns in…

— Gary Vaynerchuk

A people who have suffered so much for so long at hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere… the black communities…

— Bobby Seale

Mass incarceration is a policy that's kind of built up over the last four decades and it's destroyed families and communities, and something we…

— John Legend

I suppose our lives need to be more integrated. We have white communities and black communities and white country clubs and black country clubs.…

— Diahann Carroll

Every community has crime and violence; it's a part of being human. This idea that black communities are more violent than others is just…

— Patrisse Cullors

Nationwide, 1 in 3 black men can expect to serve time behind bars, but the rates are far higher in segregated and impoverished black communities.

— Michelle Alexander

One thing I can say as far as people from black communities dealing with trauma or PTSD is putting some trauma centers or some…

— Polo G

Especially in black communities, we've been so groomed to stay where we are and not like people in the other neighborhoods. It's crazy. It…

— Ed Reed

Black Lives Matter has become what black communities all over the world have needed it to become. At times, it is a hashtag; at…

— Patrisse Cullors

Within church communities, within black communities, and within black church communities, gossip is thy friend. Gossip will be thy friend!

— Ncuti Gatwa

Racism has its boot squarely wedged on the neck of black communities, and we don't want to be told that hard work and responsibility…

— Patrisse Cullors

I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.

— Angela Davis