I grew up in the midst of poverty but every black kid that I knew could read and write. We have to… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
So much has to do with going beyond treating black people as cosmetic and symbolic items, as opposed to genuine personalities and… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I will probably have a tendency to lean toward trying to resolve the issues that negatively impact black people, but the overall… — David Banner Copy Share Image
Black jurors sit on juries every day and convict black people every day. — Johnnie Cochran Copy Share Image
I've found in conversations with people - and not just white people either, because I realize there are some Black people that… — Jemele Hill Copy Share Image
'The Cosby Show' was a show about black people that was fundamentally and unequivocally friendly to whiteness and to white people. The… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
If I just wanted to put clean, perfect images of black people on the screen for an hour and a half, first… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
There's no reason in the world why black [people] should not be regarded as an attribute that is not degrading but is… — John Hope Franklin Copy Share Image
There are no black people in Iraq, so how will they know who to shoot at? — Greg Giraldo Copy Share Image
I was responsible for having a clean image. I wanted people to have respect for black people. — Leslie Uggams Copy Share Image
My father had the most horrible racist rhetoric you ever heard, but he treated people all the same. I remember this rainstorm.… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
“The confines of enslavement were producing Black people who were intellectually, psychologically, culturally, and behaviorally different, not inferior. Benjamin” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
There were colored and white waiting rooms everywhere, from doctor's offices to the bus stations, as people may already know. But there… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people. — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
Today mass incarceration defines the meaning of blackness in America: Black people, especially black men, are criminals. That is what it means… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
We, the Black people of America, were chosen by Allah: Not to be "special" in the sense that we are better than… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
I would think black people think everything is about race. They are the ones who are on the outside of the game.… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
The American Dream is individualistic. Martin Luther King's dream was collective. The American Dream says, "I can engage in upward mobility and… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
A cynic had defined aid as simply the system by which poor white people in rich countries gave money to rich black… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was taught that Jesus the Son of God was a white man, and hearing black people singing, 'Lord, wash me, and… — Peter Tosh Copy Share Image
The Black Lives Matter movement has to, by its very nature, be intersectional because of the complexities of who black people are… — Alicia Garza Copy Share Image
In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When things aren't going well for black people, they blame the government. When things aren't going well for white people, they can't… — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
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