In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee. — David Dinkins Copy Share Image
Faith in God helped black Americans endure slavery and Jim Crow. — Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer. — Alphonso Jackson Copy Share Image
The Democratic Party needs to stop telling black Americans how to think. — Daniel Cameron Copy Share Image
A powerful way to sidestep America's reluctance to become postracial would be for more black Americans to become postnational. — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
“...would factor into a wealth disparity of white Americans having an average net worth ten times that of black Americans by the… — Wilkerson Isabel Copy Share Image
News flash to black Americans: Barack Obama has never loved you, and by now, it should be clear to you! — Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them. — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
“Prison presented a solution: jobs for whites, and warehousing for blacks. Mass incarceration “widened the income gap between white and black Americans,” — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
“Black Americans were hardly losing any moral or cultural battles. They were being violently and nonviolently defeated in political and economic battles,… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
I write for myself and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage… — August Wilson 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
I happen to know at least a hundred Sudanese refugees in the United States, all of whom were taken in by white… — Kola Boof 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
A very hurting thing for Black Americans - to feel that we can't love our enemies. People forget what a great tradition… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Since neither black animosity nor the Left’s falsehood of “racial tensions” is based on the actual behavior of the vast majority of… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
My biggest inspiration is black America and what they've done in the arts. I have always felt like an outsider in America,… — Hasan Minhaj Copy Share Image
Let it be said that when given a chance to complete the liberation of black Americans, on June 23, 2003 five justices… — Ward Connerly Copy Share Image
I think this is what people misunderstand about Martin Luther King saying to love your enemies. They think he was just using… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“[I] would argue that native-born blacks are so vastly less "African" than actual Africans that calling ourselves 'African American' is not only… — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
“Never since the days of the Spartan Helots has history recorded such brutality as has been ever since the war and as… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
“America is a young dumb country and it needs all kinds of help. America is a dumb puppy with big teeth that… — Abiodun Oyewole Copy Share Image
“We’re indignant that men get paid more than women for doing the same work, and that white Americans earn more than black… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“The United States is the least racist multiracial country in the world. It is probably the best place in the world for… — Dennis Prager 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
“Regarding faith, my adherence to Islam had not diminished over the years since my conversion, but I had modified it from the… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
I am not a conservative but I have spoken out for years against the staggering amount blind hatred directed at black conservatives… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
“Jimmy likely wrote all three editorials, and one, titled “Who Is for Law and Order?” carried his byline. He argued that the… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
The trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans. I say, the trip to Mars can only be understood through… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Despite a rich history of black Americans involved in the Catholic Church, invisibility is a big problem for black Catholics in America. — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
“culturally conservative black Americans who are convinced that integration, and to some extent the entire liberal dream, robbed them of their natural… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Literature has been a treacherous site for black Americans because literary production has been so tied with the project of proving our… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
For black Americans, we know that gun control... sprouts from racist soil - be it after the or during the infamous Dred… — Niger Innis Copy Share Image
As America prepared for war in 1941, discrimination largely shut black Americans out of job opportunities in the growing defense industry. — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
Black Americans have organized all across this country because we have an unequal justice system, not because anyone demands special privileges. — Wayne Messam Copy Share Image
I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
Every year, Black History Month presents an opportunity to honor the legacy, contributions, and rich history of Black Americans and how they… — Laphonza Butler Copy Share Image
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