The only thing I really feel is necessary is that the black people, not only in Mississippi, will have to actually upset… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
In America, the poor have been invisibilised, because obviously this model of success that has been held out to the world must… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
We cannot afford to lose talented young black people, who make it to university, overseas, or worse, to let other talented black… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
Blaxploitation films were black films targeting black people. They were films made to appeal to a culture in a way that was… — Adrian Younge 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
Everybody else is out being themselves at work, so I don't understand why black people have to change the way they talk… — Deon Cole Copy Share Image
I would say I felt similar pressures that Black people feel in all fields, not just football. That we have to do… — Brian Flores Copy Share Image
Everything I do, I go to black people. If I have a problem at the airport, I'll go to the black ticket… — Gary Owen Copy Share Image
Hip-hop has done more damage to black and brown people than racism in the last 10 years, — Geraldo Rivera Copy Share Image
“Neo-Nazis, white nationalists, racist skinheads, neo-Confederates, the KKK - up until that morning, I'd had no idea those were all different things,… — Jennifer Latham Copy Share Image
If you see black people being portrayed in this one way well then, when you see a black person in real life,… — KiKi Layne Copy Share Image
The scheme, my dear Marqs. which you propose as a precedent, to encourage the emancipation of the black people of this Country… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I think it's really important that we understand the ways in which blackness plays out, right, and discrimination against black people impacts… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
“Between 1882 and 1968, more black people were lynched in MIssissippi than in any other state.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Whiteness is not a kinship or a culture. White people are no more closely related to one another, genetically, that we are… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
President [Barack] Obama's choice of Rahm Emmanuel as his Chief of Staff was questionable, and perhaps coverups around the police violence against… — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
Being black has been put in such a negative light. For such a long time, being black has been criminalized, but being… — Zozibini Tunzi Copy Share Image
Whether it's on the court or off, there's a sense of understanding that you get from - and I'm not going to… — Jerami Grant Copy Share Image
Black people started wearing there pants low. White people started calling it saggin. What's saggin spelled backwards? ...tricky white people. — Nikki Dasilva Copy Share Image
Black people still call me Prince. Sometimes I ask them, "Why do you call me Prince?" And people say, "Because you are… — Prince Copy Share Image
I truly believe slavery is why, as a by-product, we still have a disproportionate amount of black men incarcerated in the USA.… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
“These efforts curtailed the ability of black people to buy better housing, to move to better neighborhoods, and to build wealth. Also,… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country. — H. Rap Brown Copy Share Image
“Racial stereotyping. For Martin Luther King, Jr., and other civil rights leaders, the sin of white racism was stereotyping all black people… — Kim R. Holmes Copy Share Image
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