The data is going to indicate sadly that when the Obama administration is over, black people will have lost ground in every… — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
Why would you create a movie for black people if you don't understand the history and perspective of the people you are… — Tim Reid Copy Share Image
The press is largely directed at white society or the so-called electorate whose values are laced with racial prejudice against black people. — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
For my grandfather, there was no distinction. There was no tension between his support for civil rights for black people and his… — Megan Phelps-Roper Copy Share Image
Black people created rock music, it's a fact. Black people created bluegrass and rock and roll way before Elvis Presley and The… — Princess Nokia Copy Share Image
I carry a knife now because I read in a white magazine that all black people carry knives. So I rushed out… — Redd Foxx Copy Share Image
If we have learned anything in the past ten years, it is that these lovely things about America were never lovely. We… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“I named you Fauna because I loved Robinson Jeffers’ poem about Flora and Fauna. I asked that they keep that name. I… — Fauna Hodel Copy Share Image
In some ways, I value specificity. I think that there's power in, once you know who your fan base is, being able… — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
“Between 1882 and 1968, more black people were lynched in Mississippi than in any other state. “You and I know what’s the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I was astonished, bewildered. This was America, a country where, whatever its faults, people could speak, write, assemble, demonstrate without fear. It… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Many thought that the abolition of slavery, the end of Jim Crow, and the legislative progress of the Civil Rights Era, among… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
What comes forth from you as an artist cannot be controlled. But you have responsibilities as a global citizen. Your history dictates… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
All people, all cultures have some sort of racism. It's a cultural thing and I think that part of the issue is… — Montel Vontavious Porter Copy Share Image
Every now and then you get a nice Jewish kid who likes black people and they would come in, and it would… — Mike Epps Copy Share Image
Since Western society is deteriorating, it has become overrun with immorality, and God is going to judge it, and destroy it. And… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
My concern was first, for the black people of Mississippi, then I became concerned for black people nationwide, now my concern is… — David Banner Copy Share Image
You got black people in an all-white country and they don't know nothing about themselves. — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
“As I wrote, despite the malicious craft practiced by Hochschild and others, I am glad that an extensive documentary record of the… — Bruce Gilley Copy Share Image
“And now the lies of the Civil War and the lies of these post-racial years began to resonate with each other, and… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
See, Barack been, um, talking down to black people on this faith-based... I want to cut his nuts off. Barack, he's talking… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Brown people and black people and red people swarmed through our great halls, until those who were white looked simply faded-out human… — Candace Wheeler Copy Share Image
Even if its a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 whites. — Gary Owen Copy Share Image
Yes, you can have art films about the triumph of the human spirit and all of that, but you'll have it done… — Pam Grier Copy Share Image
