“I might look and smell smokeless now, but I’ve been burned beyond the surface.” — Zara Hairston Copy Share Image
There's a long history and a pattern of Black athletes - and Black people, period - being told to shut up and… — Jemele Hill Copy Share Image
How many shows on TV do you see young black people, both women and men, really embody a full-fledged human being, flaws… — Yvonne Orji 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
I had gone to law school thinking that I would do something in the service of black people. — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
Basic Hoes Twitter Name, LICK My This, EAT My That, Roman Numerals, Pretty This, Bad That, Minaj This, Monroe That Or Barbie… — Christian Heggs Copy Share Image
I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.' — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
My vehemence was against the federal courts. I never said a word against black people in my heart since I ran for… — George Wallace Copy Share Image
What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
This is our culture, and I don't care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is scared of… — Betty Carter Copy Share Image
There aren't a lot of roles in period movies for black people. It sucks because I love that era. But, I love… — Megalyn Echikunwoke Copy Share Image
If you read the memoirs of slave-owning families, you'd be hard pressed to find evidence of black people in the lives of… — Edward Ball Copy Share Image
“Call up the ever-pure, the effulgent and the ever-radiant character of true humanism in yourself and in others, and no racism shall… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Calling Michelle 'Obama Barack's baby mama?' Tell me, is that acceptable? But the Obamas aren't the only targets. Fox's pattern of race-baiting… — Nas Copy Share Image
“To be fair, I hate the N-word and avoid using it because the N-word has always been a pejorative, a word designed… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I think it's always been especially hard for black people to let go of musicians who do heinous things because music is… — Amanda Seales Copy Share Image
The laws of spiritual physics will not allow you to lead somebody that you don't love, that you don't care about, that… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
A lot of black people worked with the police as snitches. We used to call them bimpees where I grew up. And,… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
Jews who have been guilty of exploiting the black people in America, economically, civically, and otherwise, hide behind - hide their guilt… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Intellectual traditions emerging from populations that have always been the constitutive other in the development of the properly free citizen - indigenous… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
“I have often pointed out to students that the Jim Crow order had a specific and relatively brief life span. It was… — Adolph L. Reed Jr Copy Share Image
We [Black people] have always used our creativity to battle and we're not the only ones. Black Americans are certainly leaders in… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
No, I’m not an American. I’m one of 22 million black people who are the victims of Americanism. One of the …… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Slavery is not an indefinable mass of flesh. It is a particular, specific enslaved woman, whose mind is active as your own,… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
It would seem that some black people want to say that when you, as a black, become successful, you cease to be… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
“Slave masters thought they were making a difference in black people’s lives too. Saving them from their “wild African ways.” — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
They say African Americans. I say black people. I've only been to Africa once. I've been in America all my life! — Herman Cain Copy Share Image
Black people don't even question things any more, they simply follow the lead. — Tim Reid Copy Share Image
When white people eat potato chips, they're called white people. When black people eat potato chips, they're called niggas. — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
I love what the church offers to us as a culture - black people in particular. We would be nowhere without the… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter if you're black or white, I'll love you, but if you are orange, then well… — LyLe Copy Share Image
I think that, for so much of our matriculation through American society, black people sort of feel like outsiders. — Kenya Barris Copy Share Image
You know why Guns n' Roses aren't a good band? Because no black people listen to them. — Anton Newcombe Copy Share Image
I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery. — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
Wherever there's a prison, for the most part, especially where there's Black people, it's overcrowded. I don't know who really gets out. — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
They don't let many black people in the governor's mansion in Alabama, unless they're cleaning. — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
It doesn't do any good to just be on the side of black people. The funnier comedic position is to be on… — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa. — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
Nothing is out of our realm, because it has nothing to do with color. As black people, we're not different from anyone… — Marla Gibbs Copy Share Image
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