Education remains one of the black community's most enduring values. It is sustained by the belief that freedom and education go hand… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
[James] Baldwin was a celebrity. A TV show like Kenneth Clark could put him aside of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
I do think with wrestling as a whole, one of the tough things, especially for women, more for the black community is… — Brandi Rhodes Copy Share Image
I'd visited Antigua when I was 16 - I grew up in Suffolk around white people, I didn't have a black community,… — Andi Oliver Copy Share Image
Many of the Jews who owned the homes, the apartments in the black community, we considered them bloodsuckers because they took from… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
The little platoon of the black community is the church. Our Christian faith is based on individual freedom from sin and the… — Allen West Copy Share Image
Within the black community, roughly 60 percent of children are born to single moms. Moms don't have the emotional wherewithal to deal… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
The reason why rappers are living in - you know, driving in Mercedes-Benz's and living in neighborhoods is because they're selling their… — Eric Bolling Copy Share Image
The fact is in a city like Chicago, for example, unemployment in the black community is around 20 percent for adults, 35… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
I think it's important for us to recognize that although historically black communities have been very progressive with respect to issues of… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Historically it has been a touchy subject, especially in the south where I am from, people don't really talk about it. If… — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
“Consequential to the election outcome were the many private contacts in the capital between southern Democrats and Hayes’s northern Republican supporters. At… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
The truth is, the liberal policies of the elite class have done little to improve the lot of those who depend so… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And what we had done… — Bobby Seale Copy Share Image
Black community, I think as a whole America is dealing with the issue of homophobia. We got to be really honest about… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
When NASCAR drivers blast one another with their cars out of anger it isn't symptomatic of what's wrong with white people. So… — Jemele Hill Copy Share Image
The black community wants to buy things and want to see themselves portrayed in a certain way. And if they don't like… — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
We're not here as a black band playing white string band music. You know, we play stuff in the Appalachians, we play… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
I don't have a community like a black community to belong to [with] a musical platform that's been built for years and… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
In the black community when we think of a couselor or sitting down with a therapist there is that taboo attached to… — Gabrielle Dennis Copy Share Image
A people who have suffered so much for so long at hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere… the… — Bobby Seale Copy Share Image
The fate of millions of people—indeed the future of the black community itself—may depend on the willingness of those who care about… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The Washington black community was able to succeed beyond his wildest dreams. I mean, we had our own newspapers, our own restaurants,… — Ed Smith Copy Share Image
The first eight years of schooling was with all white people. So that helped me to understand how white people think. I… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
Abortion and racism are evil twins, born of the same lie. Where racism now hides its face in public, abortion is accomplishing… — Alveda King Copy Share Image
That's how I am and how I've always looked at the world. I understood what the pavilions were before I came to… — Mark Bradford Copy Share Image
A lot of joblessness in the black community doesn't seem to be reachable through fiscal and monetary policies. People have not been… — William Julius Wilson Copy Share Image
The Democratic Party has taken the black community for granted and said, 'This is the most loyal constituency we have. They're not… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
Seven out of 10 black faces you see on television are athletes. The black athlete carries the image of the black community.… — Arthur Ashe Copy Share Image
The establishment wonders why we can't get more of the black vote. It's because it's not doing the things necessary to establish… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
If you're a black conservative and you criticize the black community, you're an Uncle Tom. If you're a white conservative and you… — Jesse Watters Copy Share Image
When you say that you are a race man, it means that you embrace the entire black community regardless of the hue,… — Ed Smith Copy Share Image
Though the rampant racial injustices throughout the criminal justice system were offensive to me and to millions of other people, I've never… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
It goes back in the black community that the police are not your friends. That's an old, old, deep understanding that we… — Courtney B. Vance Copy Share Image
Something that people talk about a lot in the Black community is how Black women hold it up, basically, and Black women… — Nia DaCosta Copy Share Image
Earlier in my college career, there was no doubt in my mind that as a member of the Black community I was… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
We are presented with a unique situation in the black community in that we have embraced the beauty of hip hop, the… — Tamron Hall Copy Share Image
I lived in a low-income Black community, grew up with kids on welfare and with Black folks driving Cadillacs, going to private… — Maya Wiley Copy Share Image
I think in order to achieve real change, we as the black community need to come up with real asks and we… — Maverick Carter Copy Share Image
Light-skinned black people are seen to be closer to white people. The allegiance to lighter-skinned people has operated in a very destructive… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
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