Quite frankly, black folks have always been at the core of what it's meant to make this nation human. — Alicia Garza Copy Share Image
I'm tired of cookie-cutter monolithic representation of black folks. — Orlando Jones Copy Share Image
The only black folks in town when I was growing up were me and my cousins and one other family. — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
Keep on complaining about slavery and that was over 40 to 50 years ago. You know, black folks need to move on. — Ludacris Copy Share Image
I was doing economic development for minorities. I was getting black folks to use their dollars to help each other. — Jim Brown Copy Share Image
Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Black folks are judged by quantity, not quality. It's a decimal point or figure. How different is that from slavery? There's no… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
“the black folks say that only colored boys are sent to jail, and they not because they are guilty, but because the… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
White folks needs what black folks got just as much as black folks needs what white folks got, and we's all got… — Margaret Walker Copy Share Image
Black folks don't have a chance, so they are in the hood, dealing drugs, in a shoot-out. They do it again and… — Snoop Dogg Copy Share Image
Certainly there is a depression I think a lot of Black folks are getting ready to have come January [2017] and that… — Ed Gordon Copy Share Image
I don't want people to go to a film of mine because they feel guilty, like, 'I have to support it because… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
It's perfectly possible to spotlight Black joy over Black suffering. Setting the story in the past doesn't mean that Black folks do… — Rege-Jean Page Copy Share Image
Have you ever heard of Irish, Poles, Germans, Italians and Jews being integrated? They go anywhere and just enjoy their rights. Why… — James Meredith Copy Share Image
You know what? That's a high-brow comment. It comes from a certain culture or certain kind of Black person. But, what is… — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
One of the things about being a minority actor is that you don't have that opportunity as some of your counterparts to… — Georg Stanford Brown Copy Share Image
America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
One of the things I recognized early on, doing whatever studies of black history I have, is that even though black folks… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
It's fair to say that black folks operate under a cloud of invisibility - this too is part of the work, is… — Carrie Mae Weems Copy Share Image
If we got there and we looked up and we said, "You know what? Black folks are still doing a little bit… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you,… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
The one thing I've learned, getting out to all those foreign and domestic locales, is that people in every country of the… — Wolfman Jack Copy Share Image
“Religion can be a good thing. Churches did black folks good after Reconstruction. It was the only place people like Nat Turner… — Vaunda Micheaux Nelson Copy Share Image
White folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with magic and music, and although there… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Thank God for Jerry Springer's show. I thought only black folks were that screwed up until I watched Jerry Springer. — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I'm all about black folks working together and progressing together. — Lamman Rucker Copy Share Image
Why are black folks singing Amazing Grace which is a song about a white slaver's conversion? — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
Black folks aren't asked to make films about all white people. But what would have happened if we did? What would white… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
At our peril, we ignore the fact that black vernacular, like the blues, both has a form and performs... For just as… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
[...] the only folks who kill black folks any more are black folks. [...] black folks kill more black folks than the… — Michael Nutter Copy Share Image
You always have some trans girl saying, 'Oh, they were just being funny! They aren't really transphobic,' Just like you will always… — Angelica Ross 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 can tell you from personal experience it gets a little tiring having to make the rounds on cable shows to explain… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
Trust me, Black folks are tired of always having to save this country from itself and then being ignored once the winner… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
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