We need to fight for a new human rights movement that recognizes and values black life. — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
It's hypocritical to say Black Lives Matter' when we know Black life begins in the womb. — Angela Stanton-King Copy Share Image
I'm black. I've been black all my life, and as far as I know, I'll die black. — Andrew Gillum Copy Share Image
Black Lives Matter is not just concerned with what happens in policing. The disregard, the disrespect, and the lack of dignity for… — Alicia Garza Copy Share Image
What's 'Atlanta' about? Technically, it's about a couple guys who are friends, but to me, 'Atlanta' is about black lives. I'm getting… — Lena Waithe Copy Share Image
There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the black experience in… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I can't stop thinking about the devaluation of black life, and I find it seeping into everything I write. — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I don't trust white critics' judgment about most things that deal with black life, particularly when a black person is the creator. — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
There's an audience and market for depictions of Black life that are as broad and as deep as any other depictions of… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
We will not stop fighting until every single black life is provided the type of love and support we so desperately deserve. — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
All black art, post-slavery, has always tried to prove in its own way that a black life is the equivalent of anyone… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
In the Shadow of Slavery covers two and a half centuries of black life in New York City, and skillfully interweaves the… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
We recriminalized black life. Incarceration rates since the 1908s have gone through the roof, overwhelmingly black males, women and Hispanics to some… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The criminalization of Black life was something specific to the United States in the post-Reconstruction period and there's something like it happening… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Black life is ambiguous, and a kaleidoscope of meanings, rich, multi-sided . . . we have frozen our vision in figures that… — Charles Bartlett Johnson Copy Share Image
Far from ending, systemic racism reinvents itself to conform to what is publically acceptable, leaving the quality of black life diminished and… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
If you are born black, it is better to be born now than in any other time in United States history. My… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
If black lives matter, then why is it that black women are more than five times as likely as a white woman… — Alveda King Copy Share Image
“So what are you supposed to do? My friends, what I need you to do—just for starters—is not act. Not yet. Not… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“A shift in class values occurs in black life when integration comes and with it the idea that money is the primary… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
“I asked another friend what it's like being the mother of a black son. "The condition of black life is one of… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
“Beloved, to be white is to know that you have at your own hand, or by extension, through institutionalized means, the power… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
