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
Jeremiah Wright is one of the greatest prophetic preachers that black America has produced. What I find striking is that many white… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
As you know, Sunday at 11 o'clock is the most segregated hour in America. You have black churches; you have white churches;… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
You can't separate the phenomenal birth of unionism in the United States of America from the Pullman porters. This same small group… — Andre Braugher Copy Share Image
What's funny is that in the '90s, growing up in the black church, everyone around you was older, so your swag became… — Kirk Franklin 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
Donald Trump has not held an event in the black community. He has not gone to a black church, as Hillary Clinton… — Donna Brazile Copy Share Image
Within church communities, within black communities, and within black church communities, gossip is thy friend. Gossip will be thy friend! — Ncuti Gatwa Copy Share Image
What's happening is that Asian and Latino and other groups without that history are more likely to end up in either black… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
I don't go and study other folks. I come from where I came from, as a kid, in the little black church… — Cecil Williams Copy Share Image
Preaching styles and people being slain in the spirit and things like that. Now it doesn't happen in all black churches, and… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
“If we're serious about rebuilding and restoring what was lost in our communities, in our families, in society, it really does start… — Carlos Wallace Copy Share Image
“Racism is both overt and covert. It takes two, closely related forms: individual whites acting against individual blacks, and acts by the… — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
“Before I learned about labor unions, contracts, and collective bargaining, I was taught about structure and organization, in church. (Reclaiming the Black… — Carlos Wallace Copy Share Image
Nothing is more powerful than the black church experience. A good choir and a good sermon in the black church, it's pretty… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The beauty of the literary art, the grappling with the black church, the wrestling with one's identity in the bosom of a… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The wonderful thing about the black church for me is that it forces you to come to terms with the centrality of… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I certainly think so, and I argue so, and I give talks on that. Are there risks by putting people together? Absolutely.… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
You know, the vibrancy of the black church, the black businesses that employ so many people, the opportunities that so many families… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“The main thing that distinguishes mealtimes with Jesus, as Conrad Gempf has shown, from the meals of his contemporaries are four verbs.[44]… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
I love going to black churches, and I love some of these black preachers. The best preacher I ever saw in my… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
