In my opinion while lynchings were quite possibly the most heinous crimes ever witnessed in American history, they helped in bringing people… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
The Clintons use black people for votes but then don't do anything for black communities after they're elected. They use us for… — Alicia Garza Copy Share Image
There's a way that white people and black people spoke in the '70s that is nothing like how they speak now. They… — Michael Jai White Copy Share Image
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
When I started, black people were either victims or they were the perpetrators; they were the boogie men who jumped out of… — Joe Morton Copy Share Image
Donald Trump's slogan: "Let's make America great again." And when I hear that, that seems to suggest there was a moment in… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The press has not done a fair job of exposing his [Bernie Sanders] policy. He has not had the television time that… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
Amongst black people, you have always heard it said that once a black man reaches a certain level, especially if you are… — Spike Lee 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
“The FHA had adopted a system of maps that rated neighborhoods according to their perceived stability. On the maps, green areas, rated… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
For me, as a child, I certainly thought that there were more black people in the world than white people. — Keegan-Michael Key Copy Share Image
Look, we understood we couldn't make it illegal to be young or poor or black in the United States, but we could… — John Ehrlichman Copy Share Image
In black America there's such a thing as passing, the black people who are light skinned and they will pass for white. — Juan Williams 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
“They didn't mean it to be like this. But it was like this. Both had other intentions. Howard had knocked on the… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“If women, as a gender, must suffer the constant evaluations and denigrations of men, black women must suffer that, plus a broad… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The reality is, because of access to film, you don't have a lot of black people who want to go behind the… — Michael Ealy Copy Share Image
The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
“We aren't so called black people. We are black people. Be black and proud!” — Dr.Nana Adu-Boafo Jnr Copy Share Image
Black Lives Matter is our call to action. It is a tool to reimagine a world where black people are free to… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
For black people, everything we do has to be ratified and endorsed by a power structure that is white. And that reinforces… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
“I am an educated black woman in a time when educated black people will be called upon to risk everything for the… — Allan Dare Pearce Copy Share Image
The United States is not a nation of black and white people. Any fool can see that white people are not really… — Albert Murray Copy Share Image
