When I was growing up, Forest Park was full of integrated families. It was amazing. One my best friends was Vietnamese. Another… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
That night I lie out under the stars again. The Pleiades are there winking at me. I am no longer on my… — Ted Simon Copy Share Image
The black man will inherit the earth; he will resume control, taking back the position he held centuries ago when the white… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've designed since I was 12. The first was when I skated to Carmen, in red and gold and black. I wanted… — Sasha Cohen Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, I was in a special math class. I was infatuated with physics, particularly nuclear physics, Einstein,… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
It took a long time for hip-hop to become commercial. Now there's all these big black icons that came from nowhere to… — Skepta Copy Share Image
Race as a subject only comes about because of what I look like. If I say something truthfully, people say "Oh, she's… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
The train skimmed on softly, slithering, black pennants fluttering, black confetti lost on its own sick-sweet candy wind, down the hill, with… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I was in martial arts starting at the age of 14, and I got my black belt by the time I was… — Brad D. Smith Copy Share Image
It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an… — Harry Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
I always said if I lived to get grown and had a chance, I was going to try to get something for… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
I invented the colors of the vowels!--A black, E white, I red, O blue, U green--I made rules for the form and… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
I have been thinking about the girl I met last night in the mirror: dark on the marble-ivory white: glossy black hair:… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Even in the era of the first black president, racism is still the most intractable issue in USA. Regarding poverty, half of… — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
I had an interview once with some German journalist—some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early days after the communists—maybe a… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people who believe that the individual can't make it himself. And that's why people want to join… — Frank Capra Copy Share Image
The black unemployment rate has to be twice that of the white rate in the US. If the national unemployment rate were… — Jared Bernstein Copy Share Image
The elective franchise is withheld from one half of its citizens...because the word 'people,' by an unparalleled exhibition of lexicon graphical acrobatics,… — Mary Church Terrell Copy Share Image
I love blue more than any other color. I am inordinately attracted to any blue substance: to minerals like turquoise and lapis… — Eleanor Perenyi Copy Share Image
Life is just like a book. Only after you've read it do you know how it ends. It is when we are… — Carolina Maria de Jesus Copy Share Image
I do think it's important for black writers to show that we too can make it into the mainstream. Growing up, I… — Lena Waithe Copy Share Image
I didn't like any British music before The Beatles. For me, it was all about black American music. But then I became… — Lulu Copy Share Image
Howbeit your faith seeth but the black side of providence, yet it hath a better side, and God shall let you see… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
Howbeit your faith seeth but the black side of Providence, yet it hath a better side, and God shall let you see… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
The rise of African nations concurrent with the spread of the Nation of Islam and the civil rights movement gave black America… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
But the thought arrived inside her like a train: Marya Morevna, all in black, here and now, was a point at which… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Everybody knows there is no such thing as normal. There is no black-and-white definition of normal. Normal is subjective. There's only a… — Tori Spelling Copy Share Image
“Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
Racial terrorism affects the lives of white people and black people and everyone, everything. Racism is contaminating. It can affect the dogs… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
They had this movie called Juno about a teenage girl who gets pregnant and it's nominated for an Oscar. That's an unusual… — D. L. Hughley Copy Share Image
People are very afraid. In my country, you had a corrupt party who sabotaged an amazing candidate Bernie Sanders who was stronger… — El-P Copy Share Image
The white population could not possibly be unaffected by those events - some whites more stubborn in their defense of segregation, but… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
No one wants to sell to just 12% of the population for the entire length of their careers. It creates a difficult… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
When the devil makes his offer (always open incidentally) of the kingdoms of the earth, it is the bordellos which glow so… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
I'm just challenging white supremacy at its intellectual heart every day. It's a pedagogy that I deploy against some of the most… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Whether the issue was black political power or nuclear power, Scott-Heron didn't mince words. His comeback record, 'I'm New Here,' doesn't mince… — Will Hermes Copy Share Image
Progressive white teachers seem to say to their black students 'Let me help you find your voice. I promise not to criticize… — Lisa Delpit Copy Share Image