“I had seen a photograph of Emmett Till's body just after it was pulled from the river. I had seen photographs of… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“Programmed in self-hatred, many of us shadow-box the light of day away and chase everything meaningless the night through until we perish… — D. Allen Miller Copy Share Image
Without external pressure, things might have gone very differently. That has always been true for African Americans; the better we've been at… — Michael C Dawson Copy Share Image
Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I would be a president for all of the people, African- Americans, the inner cities. Devastating what's happening to our inner cities.… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
There is a reason that many African Americans have a healthy mistrust for law enforcement. We don't always feel protected or served… — Sterling K. Brown Copy Share Image
Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
I think young people don't really know that much about the Civil Rights Movement and about the history of African Americans in… — Don Lemon Copy Share Image
“This was, by comparison, a safe, secure, clean world. And looking at it, she thought it must be rather pleasant to be… — Ann Petry Copy Share Image
Reinvigorating the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, making sure that in our Department of Education, where we see evidence of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Many White people are not sensitive to the kind of abuse that African Americans, especially younger African Americans, receive at the hands… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
People talk about Jim Crow as if it's dead. Jim Crow isn't gone. It's adjusted. Look at the disproportionate sentences meted out… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
“And I know that there are black boys and black girls out there lost in a Bermuda triangle of the mind or… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
To simply say that black people made allegations that substantiated an unfair and selective prosecution where you had more than half of… — Cornell William Brooks Copy Share Image
Like anyone else in television, I like to explore my life experience. And I don't think African-American artists see doing shows or… — Salim Akil Copy Share Image
I'm looking at the head of the household, and the house hasn't been run properly for a long time, ... Clinton was… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
“Most people write me off when they see me. They do not know my story. They say I am just an African.… — idowu koyenikan Copy Share Image
“But race in the United States is not a tidy matter. Only three of the submitted pieces explicitly referenced the future. Most… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“Yet, if the American Negro has arrived at his identity by virtue of the absoluteness of his estrangement from his past, American… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“I thought I had it all figured out. I thought of racism as an inanimate, immortal system, not as a living, recognizable,… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
Within the model minority rhetoric, Asian Americans are represented as “good” minorities and African Americans are represented as “bad” minorities. Here, the… — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
“Well, of course," Camilo said, and grinned back at JohnRolandJoseph and his long line of bought and paid for ancestors, as friendly… — Ann Petry Copy Share Image
“The things white folks put people through--my god, cruel in ways I just can't even reconcile. Should be ashamed for a thousand… — Cebo Campbell Copy Share Image
“Understanding Metro's history may illuminate today's debates. To conservatives who decry Metro's expense--around $10 billion in nominal dollars--this book serves as a… — Zachary M. Schrag Copy Share Image
During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in… — William Julius Wilson Copy Share Image
Well, I'm a daughter of the great migration as, really, the majority of African Americans that you meet in the north and… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
African-Americans are as fair as any other group, but they bring their life experiences to bear as just as whites bring their… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
The Great Migration can get forgotten if we don't pay attention or bear witness to it. It's part of my personal history… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I'm the kind of person that when I saw a lack of African Americans in the apparel business, that was something I… — Daymond John Copy Share Image
They are trying to lock up as many of us up as possible to put us in penitentiaries for free labor. You… — Eddie Griffin Copy Share Image
As African-Americans, we don't start with a blank slate, while other people may. In our position, there's always some sort of stereotype… — Xavier Woods Copy Share Image
I am the executive director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, which is the country's only national immigrant rights organization for… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
Groups like the NAACP, The Anti-Defamation League, NOW and GLAAD, will respond to derisive language directed at their constituents. The price paid… — John C. McGinley Copy Share Image
I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many… — Patricia Ireland Copy Share Image
During the Great Depression African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights, but they became impatient for economic emancipation. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Most African Americans, if given a chance, would have chosen to be 'just Americans' ever since the first of us was brought… — Clarence Page Copy Share Image
There are more African Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850 a… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Incidents of racial bias and implicit bias happen to African-Americans of every social class daily in America. White people seldom notice or… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
“The core argument of this book is that African Americans were unconstitutionally denied the means and the right to integration in middle-class… — Richard Rothstein Copy Share Image
“Daddy once told me there's a rage passed down to every black man from his ancestors, born the moment they couldn't stop… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
