Black people are achievers; we're survivors.

I like people who are achievers.

— Donald Sterling

For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people.

— Linda Chavez

It's time for us as Black people to realize that we can do more than one thing.

— Mase

Black people have been killed for directing their gaze at the wrong person. I want my subjects to reclaim their right to look, to…

— Dawoud Bey

What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It's the weight on our shoulders. That is what's actually different. We…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“black people frequently disqualified themselves even without the WHITES ONLY sign in view”

— Margot Lee Shetterly

I've heard that Black people and Black faces don't sell magazines, but one day you're going to beg me to be on there.

— Michael Jackson

Often young black people are looking towards the alternative economies. They are looking towards the drug economy… the economies that are going to that…

— Angela Davis

I'll start with the reality. If we're having problems nationally, we're having problems on the state level and then on the local level, what…

— Louis Farrakhan

Black people are not often considered mainstream.

— Lamman Rucker

Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of…

— Nate Parker

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

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

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