I am the man you've needed all you life. I can give you whatever you wish before you even realize you are… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Black people are dying in this country because we have a criminal justice system which is out of control, a system in… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Segregation was ugly but we made something good out of something ugly. Since we were not welcome in other places run by… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
Certainly I feel like I'm the tip of the arrow at times because certainly the national media wants to talk about the… — Tim Scott Copy Share Image
Coming from parents who came over from the West Indies to the U.K. and always being subject to being the other; meaning… — Judi Love Copy Share Image
“Responding to Wright’s critique, Hurston claimed that she had wanted at long last to write a black novel, and “not a treatise… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Not all of us are as effective as we could be, should be, or need to be, but some of the [most… — Michael C Dawson Copy Share Image
It's unfortunate that some people do not see what entertainers do in the background, but many of us do so much work… — Tichina Arnold Copy Share Image
As a black person, I'm used to going to places in which I might be the only black person that shows up… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
X is not my real name. But if you study history, you'll find why no Black man in the Western Hemisphere knows… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
As a young black woman, I notice at times in the mainstream media framing of the 'me too' movement you see a… — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
I will always remember my delight when Mrs. Georgia Gilmore - an unlettered woman of unusual intelligence - told how an operator… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
That scene that I have with Brad Pitt in Meet Joe Black is one of my favorite scenes that I've ever done.… — Jeffrey Tambor Copy Share Image
The heart of myself has always been something just wanting so bad. I have had an empty center, black as a basement,… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
That was one of the big problems in the [Black Panther] Party. Criticism and self-criticism were not encouraged, and the little that… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
How did we lose our culture? Black people used to all do the same thing on Saturdays. We all watched "Soul Train"… — DJ Quik Copy Share Image
I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made,… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
Black people we've been taught that we will never be free, until some will have to die, some will have to give… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion... no, make that: he - he romanticized it all out… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
He was right – she was beating herself up about hurting his feelings. The girl was a classic martyr. She’d totally been… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
It's perversion. Don't you see what it is? It's not natural. To go to great expense for something you want, that's natural.… — Abraham Polonsky Copy Share Image
Do not cringe and make yourself small if you are called the black sheep, the maverick, the lone wolf. Those with slow… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
When I first saw a White Dutch person dressed up as Black Pete, I was both sickened and shocked. It's hard to… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
He[Michael Jackson] had a joy in being alive. There was a joy you felt of him on the stage and making us… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The economic philosophy of black nationalism only means that our people need to be re-educated into the importance of controlling the economy… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
One of the facets of growing up the way I did, I never had the experience of being solely in the black… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
Black Fergusonians have shown that they will vote when they have something to vote for and know that their vote will count.… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
The 1990s were also when a bunch of the soft-shoe language for race, gender, and class became paramount. Because before that I… — Adrian Matejka Copy Share Image
We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel like doing smaller budget stuff. When I did 'Young Adam', for instance, I'd come out of 'Black Hawk Down'… — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
There are three things, and it depends on the group that we're talking about, but there's history, there's culture, and then there's… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
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It's time for a new National Anthem. America is divided into two definite divisions. The easy thing to cop out with is… — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
For one work we developed a human hair felt, which involved collecting and sorting hundreds of kilos of human hair, and then… — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
All black art is always judged to illuminate our experience and prove that our stories and our history and our lives matter.… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
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The majority of South Africans, black and white, recognize that apartheid has no future. It has to be ended by our own… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
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![“Not all of us are as effective as we could be, should be, or need to be, but some of the [most important] issues are slowly starting to be taken up again within black communities [because of their contributions], when we're not obsessed with personal attacks against each other.” quote by Michael C Dawson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dab/michael-c-dawson-54101_black_not-all-of-us-are-as-effective-as-we-cou_2867082.jpg)
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