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
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
I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don't want to be… — Richard M. Nixon 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
Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well. — Rand Paul 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
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
We want everybody to think about what's in their interests. And I believe that our Democratic party platform has a better vision… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
To operate with the aspiration of color-blindness in a country whose central operating mechanism for centuries has been race belies the logic… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
“While this number puts the economic fragility of America’s families in a new light, the shocking statistic is that nine out of… — Thomas Shapiro 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
How many of the original songs survive intact from the slave cabins? Probably not many in their original form. Time has transformed… — Kathleen Battle Copy Share Image
You have to use what you have in order to get what you need and the people can not be rich unless… — Nikki Giovanni 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
Too many of our fellow Americans have to struggle each day against the obstacles imposed by racism, history and original sin. These… — Conor Lamb 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
The strange thing about my life is that I came to America at about the time when racial attitudes were changing. This… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I once wrote that Black Americans are involved in an intriguing experiment to see if an oppressed minority can continue to march… — Gerald Horne Copy Share Image
“Those studies showed that White Americans consistently received more help than Black Americans. The only harm done to Black Americans in those… — Mahzarin R. Banaji Copy Share Image
We were land-based agrarian people from Africa. We were uprooted from Africa, and we spent 200 years developing our culture as black… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
Style has a profound meaning to Black Americans. If we can’t drive, we will invent walks and the world will envy the… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
The need of black conservatives to gain the respect of their white peers deeply shapes certain elements of their conservatism. In this… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
In terms of viewing the world in a certain way, when you're talking about monsters and talking about the metaphor that you're… — Kevin Grevioux Copy Share Image
“The dream was ennobling but doomed. It was Malcolm's curse to see this before the most of the rest of us; it… — Peter Goldman Copy Share Image
Black Americans make up 10 or 11% of the population, but they account now for something of 40 to 45% of all… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
It's impossible for most black Americans to construct full family trees. Official census records, used by so many genealogy enthusiasts to piece… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Only by acknowledging the full extent of slavery's full grip on U.S. Society - its intimate connections to present day wealth and… — Douglas A. Blackmon Copy Share Image
The way Donald Trump talks about the problems of black Americans as a kind of separate group who are not part of… — George Packer Copy Share Image
I have always drawn strength from my late mother's life. When Eunice Johnson set up the first major fashion show for African-American… — Linda Johnson Rice Copy Share Image
“The Irish had tough times, but little compares to the experience on our soil of black Americans. That experience should be part… — Historica Press Copy Share Image
Critical Race Theory is a warped ideology that seeks to divide Americans and relitigate the sins of the past by pinning White… — Byron Donalds Copy Share Image
My fellow Black Americans are expected to fit a certain mold and think a certain way. We've been socially conditioned to blindly… — Vernon Jones Copy Share Image
America has granted every wish of black Americans. It has made government the head of the black family; it has integrated the… — Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
The welfare state has done to Black Americans what slavery (and Jim Crow and racism) could not have done. . .break up… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
I happen to think that conservatism, when properly applied to the 21st century, could actually help everybody. And the message of Trump's… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
We [Black people] have always used our creativity to battle and we're not the only ones. Black Americans are certainly leaders in… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
I think it's a bit of a myth that black Americans need one leader. We're not a monolith. And now that legal… — John Legend Copy Share Image
Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've had, are sort of insulted that the… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
Black Americans should be given credit for finding probably the perfect weapon; the weapon of the song. And that song continues. Most… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
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