There's a class divide in black America that doesn't seem to trouble black Americans so much, but whites use it and exploit… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
We have seen an unprecedented gathering of the leaders of black America coming together to speak with one voice, ... The whole… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
White folks, no matter how well-meaning or open-minded, have no true idea what it's like to be black in America. That's not… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
I think we have come to a place in black America, sadly from my point of view, where we have once again… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
The Black church is extremely important in Black America. I think most Americans themselves believe in a divine power, in a god,… — Harry Lennix Copy Share Image
Do you have any idea what Ali meant to black people? He was the leader of a nation, the leader of Black… — Reggie Jackson Copy Share Image
It is utterly exhausting being Black in America - physically, mentally, and emotionally. While many minority groups and women feel similar stress,… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Black America knows what real progress looks like, that's why a Black family dancing to Tag Team in the kitchen sells a… — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
Women and LBGT people have the advantage that they are everybody's son, daughter, cousin, nephew, aunt, uncle. They are in a position… — Linda Hirshman Copy Share Image
Black America surely faces an existential crisis, but not the one imagined in the condescending news media - of somehow getting non-black… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Let's start with the black glove. We felt it necessary being the fact that the Olympic Games, for the first time ever… — John Carlos Copy Share Image
I always want to read something about our people's enslavement near the 4th. To keep it light, I also read Rolanda Watts'… — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
“Understanding African American attitudes and actions on matters of crime and punishment requires that we pay careful attention to another topic that… — James Forman Jr Copy Share Image
What is being black? It's making the most of your life, not taking a single moment for granted. Taking something that's seen… — John Mayer Copy Share Image
The emphasis on personal responsibility is something we've had in black America from the get-go. Every major leader and intellectual worth her… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
There are huge divorces and divides and chasms in black America between the have-gots and the have-nots, between the monied and the… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Audiences want great story telling; it's why white people watch my show 'Black in America.' It's why black people watch 'Latina in… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
I thought our community should have a deep dialogue to make black America better. I believe if we make black America better,… — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King was a misguided leader. He worked to be recognized as the leader of black America, when what black America… — Don Yaeger Copy Share Image
A part of being black in America and, you know, I presume being any minority, is constantly being told that we're being… — Jordan Peele Copy Share Image
Being black in America - especially as I was growing up - the feeling of oppression, the feeling of being outcast, the… — Rza Copy Share Image
If I could offer a single prescription for the survival of America, and particularly black America, it would be to restore the… — William Raspberry Copy Share Image
I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
Just as important I believe, is Black America can look back at the show and say, "Wow, I think I now understand… — Sterling K. Brown Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET. Many like me who operate in black America can only get our… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
I think there's a sort of, you know, very thin way of reading this that says, well, Barack Obama is biracial thus… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
When you're Black in America, you spend a lot of time counting firsts. The higher the first, the more we marvel (and… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
“The primary reason that U.S. infant mortality is so high compared to other countries is that African Americans suffer a staggering rate.… — Laura Briggs Copy Share Image
I was adopted my black Americans, I feel that I'm a 'Hybrid'. When I'm around Africans'I suddenly feel very black American. And… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
There's always opposition when you speak on topics like I'm speaking on. But I'm a black man in America. I grew up… — Eric Reid Copy Share Image
“Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others. Black America… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Leftist big-government policies have been disastrous for black America just as they were in the countries that most Hispanics emigrated from. But… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
I think, something that you might be able to locate in the work that I'm creating today: the ability to look at… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
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