The easy answer is to say that it's a part for black people to see black heroes, but to me it's important… — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
Throughout history there have been black people who have played mammies, all sorts of offensive images, who didn't mind doing it. — Marc Lamont Hill Copy Share Image
I think that unlearning race for black people is more along the lines of seriously saying blackness isn't real, race isn't real. — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
I think that's the core of black aesthetics: the ability to improvise. That is what has enabled our [black people's] survival. — August Wilson Copy Share Image
“Any ministry to black people which is not designed to effect their empowerment is designed to perpetuate their enslavement.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There was a great deal of inbreeding between the Indians and the slaves. Genetically speaking, black people are some part black, some… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
All the poor white people, all the poor black people, all the Hispanics, they're in the same boat. They've got no economic… — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
I am part of a legacy of queer black women who have fought for the freedom of black people across the globe. — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
The system knows how to cherry pick black people. It's like affirmative action - once a year, one is recognized. But what… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
Many times, I get young people asking, 'What do you think about black movies?' And I say, 'What are you talking about?… — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
“When I was a teenager, for example, others questioned my blackness because some of the life choices I made weren’t considered to… — Issa Rae Copy Share Image
America don't have no future! America's going to be destroyed! Allah's going to divinely chastise America! Violence, crimes, earthquakes - there's gonna… — Muhammad Ali 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
Niggerization is the result of oppression -- and it doesn't just apply to the black people. Old people, poor people, and students… — Florynce Kennedy Copy Share Image
“He had dreadlocks, which is what some black people have, but he was white, and dreadlocks is when you never wash your… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
If there had never been the Great Migration there would never have been jazz, there would never have been Michelle Obama. A… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
“Politically progressive black people on the Left who are not nationalist, like myself, share a perspective that promotes the eradication of white… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
The problem is that white people see racism as conscious hate, when racism is bigger than that. Racism is a complex system… — Scott Woods Copy Share Image
Two parents can't raise a child any more than one. You need a whole community - everybody - to raise a child.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“chain kept moving, and Ball led the file down through Virginia into North Carolina at a steady pace. As the days wore… — Edward E. Baptist Copy Share Image
Never in life do you hear about a large group of black people getting killed altogether. 'Cuz we run. Nigga, we run… — Cedric The Entertainer Copy Share Image
Everyday, day & night, we hear the lies that September 11th is the worst tragedy, worst accident, and worst crime to ever… — Malik Zulu Shabazz Copy Share Image
Radical militant feminist believes that women of color and Black women in particular have written the cutting edge theory and really were… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The night that George Zimmerman was acquitted, I think, for black people all over the world, there was a collective feeling of… — Alicia Garza Copy Share Image
Black people beating whites when a thug got shot holding a gun by a black officer haha (expletive) cracks me up! Keep… — Steve Clevenger Copy Share Image
Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a… — Nate Parker Copy Share Image
What Martin Luther King is doing is disarming the black people of America of their God-given right and of their natural right. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“Did Jefferson really believe Black people were smart in slavery and stupid in freedom?13 Notes” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things. — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
Didnt! (SMACK!) I! (SMACK!) TELL! (SMACK!) YOU! (SMACK!) TO! (SMACK!) Shut Up! (SMACK!) Move Yo Damn Hand (SMACK!) (SMACK!) Lol — Deon Crockett Jr Copy Share Image
“Black(people) hold onto their God just as the drunken man holds on to the street lamp post—for physical support only.” — Tai Solarin Copy Share Image
When I say the n-word, black people are clear that I'm on their side. And it's not disingenuous - I am on… — Neal Brennan Copy Share Image
The single most important lesson I learned is that black people are the cause of black people's demise. — KRS-One Copy Share Image
Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
I'm for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people. — Richard Pryor Copy Share Image
There were no black images of dignity, no images of beautiful black people. There was this big hole. I tried to fill… — Roy DeCarava Copy Share Image
The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong. — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
I think it's important for black people in general to be aware of what's going on and do what you got to… — JPEGMAFIA Copy Share Image
The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other. — H. Rap Brown Copy Share Image
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