When Oregon was founded as a state in 1857, its…

“Heresy no longer existed within religion; it was founded in the state.”

— Reinhart Koselleck

I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language.

— Mahmoud Darwish

Kerri and I met at theatre camp when were 16 years old, which is pretty lame. The rest of us met when we founded…

— Thomas Lennon

Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind…

— Ed Smith

All black people who are even minimally conscious, black people who have ever experienced Europe's technological power crusading in the vanguard of a civilizing…

— Lewis Nkosi

“Any ministry to black people which is not designed to effect their empowerment is designed to perpetuate their enslavement.”

— Anonymous

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