Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
If I were a bad black comic I would name my special, Yo mama, and other stories of a lack of self… — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
The right to self-protection, let alone the right to bear arms, doesn't exactly apply to Black people. — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
None of the people's wars of the sixties did very well, including the one in Vietnam. Vo Nguyen Giap himself has admitted… — Chalmers Johnson Copy Share Image
I feel that sometimes, holding yourself as black, saying that is your sole identity, can sometimes stand in your way of being… — Giancarlo Esposito Copy Share Image
I think that seeing as much support as somebody like Obama as a black candidate running for president in a country that… — David Draiman Copy Share Image
Black ice is the smoothest naturally occuring ice there is, as if nature were condescending to art. ... Black ice is an… — Lorene Cary Copy Share Image
I told them [the producers] I couldn't compound the lie that Black fathers don't care about their children. I was proud of… — Esther Rolle Copy Share Image
I'm working to create a space where it feels easy to include and imagine black girls and make black girls like me… — Marley Dias Copy Share Image
When Black and White are colors and not races, people will still fall in love and discriminate between partners and feel sad… — Marlene Dumas Copy Share Image
Seattle is like a global gumbo, a melting pot with all kinds of people - the rich, the poor, white people, some… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
A lot of joblessness in the black community doesn't seem to be reachable through fiscal and monetary policies. People have not been… — William Julius Wilson Copy Share Image
If you subscribe to any moral code that says you should care for humanity, obviously black people will fit into that category. — Lecrae Copy Share Image
Under Trump, black lives will become even more vulnerable to state violence. — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
Black women have kinky hair, and we think we have limitations on what we can do. It's interesting that people think, 'Oh… — Zoe Kravitz Copy Share Image
No matter what the cause, even though it be to conquer with tanks and planes and modern artillery some defenseless black population,… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
The person I always enjoy having a meal with is Cilla Black. I might not see her for months, but then I'll… — Paul O'Grady Copy Share Image
There is not a black America and a white America; a Latino America, an Asian America. There is the United States of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Husbands lie, Masha. I should know; I've eaten my share. That's lesson one. Lesson number two: among the topics about which a… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Every time a boy falls off a tricycle, every time a black cat has gray kittens, every time someone stubs a toe,… — Al Capone Copy Share Image
I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men.He is interested in the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Bright beads of red are rising through the ink, Hearts-blood bubbles smearing out into the black stream — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Black Lives Matter has been viral, and people are taking it, appropriating it, and using it however they see fit. — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
So when I got to be about 13 or 14, I started listening - even though my parents music was way cool… — Slash Copy Share Image
'I Spy' represents the absence of the tension of the black man or black woman or anyone of that color walking in,… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Groups that work in black neighborhoods around the country have contended that much of subprime lending is 'predatory lending.' — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
I've read some amazingly derogatory things about me over the years and I've sat there and thought: if you replaced 'ginger' with… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
I'm a grandmother and like every grandmother, I worry about the safety and security of my grandchildren, but my worries are not… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
At this time I'd like to say a few words especially to my sisters: SISTERS. BLACK PEOPLE WILL NEVER BE FREE UNLESS… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
Guys just don't care. We don't take the time to plan behind each other's back. We just say, If you don't like… — Jonathan Bennett Copy Share Image
Moments later a huge male with a cropped mohawk came out. Rehvenge was dressed in a perfectly tailored black suit and had… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
Black Americans are the only people in history who are for education instead of liberation. George Washington wasn't beating up on British… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. It's the term used by American retailers to describe the day… — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
The trade schools closed, so young Black men don't know how to build a house, or put a roof on a house… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
All the courage and competitiveness of Jackie Robinson affects me to this day. If I patterned my life after anyone it was… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
I was a black boy at the height of the crack era, which meant that my instructors pitched education as the border… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
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