When you have the national narrative being "crack is awful and black people are using it," why go against that narrative when… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
There is some group of Americans who are really, really curious to understand how we ended up at this point, where every… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“The kind of trenchant racism to which black people have persistently been subjected can never be defeated by making its victims more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black… — Eden Ahbez 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
Ali helped raise black people in this country out of mental slavery. The entire experience of being black changed for millions of… — Reggie Jackson Copy Share Image
Things were tough. Segregation was all around - in the schools, the buses, the restaurants, the theaters. But Dr. King worked hard… — Jesse White Copy Share Image
One principle I've been fighting for that doesn't endear me to a lot of people is that black people can be just… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
You're a slave in your own country, White Man. Each year you get to keep less of the fruits of your labor;… — George Lincoln Rockwell Copy Share Image
“What is the black shadow? It's the running inner dialogue we have with ourselves all day long about our fears of being… — Marlene F. Watson Copy Share Image
In Harlem, for instance, all of the stores are owned by white people, all of the buildings are owned by white people.… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“Most racism is pushed through media houses. Check the heading, wording and pictures they use, even the cartoons. Infect, I am starting… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
When I first started writing plays I couldn't write good dialogue because I didn't respect how black people talked. I thought that… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
“If you are a white person who would like to treat black people as equals in every way - who would like… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Growing up the way I did, it was tough being one of only a few black people in the town and in… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
Too often black people are confronted with an assumption that there is only one way to be black, and that anyone who… — Kemi Badenoch Copy Share Image
I learned that in order to have a strong and credible voice, I needed to do more research into the history of… — Logan Browning Copy Share Image
Because when you unite, that is the power of God, you know. God love Love, which is unity. So when you unite,… — Bob Marley Copy Share Image
Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America. More specifically, Barack Obama is the president of a congenitally racist… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Despite what some people have said, President Bush did not want black people to die in New Orleans. However, he did hope… — Scott McClellan Copy Share Image
“Black people were viewed as a contagion. Redlining went beyond FHA-backed loans and spread to the entire mortgage industry, which was already… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My research has taught me many important lessons, but perhaps none more important than this: drug effects, like semesters, are predictable; police… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
I think once 'Empire' hit, there was a lot of bad black TV that followed, because we work in the business of… — Lena Waithe Copy Share Image
“The trigger for white rage, inevitably, is black advancement. It is not the mere presence of black people that is the problem;… — Carol Anderson Copy Share Image
There was always resistance and there was always a counter-narrative, but we were told all through the early twentieth century that black… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I don't want to make black people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money; I want to give them the opportunity… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
As a writer, I was shaped by a desire to write for black people. That things were not being represented. That was… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Outside of the oppressive nature that the South offered to the black people, black gay people, black gay people who happened to… — Tituss Burgess Copy Share Image
When the culture is strong, you've got this consistency where black people can grow up in these places with this voice just… — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
I am shocked. It's upsetting to be described as chocolate, not just for me, but for all black women and black people.… — Naomi Campbell Copy Share Image
Everybody has told the story of black people in struggle except black people. The black people in the struggle haven't had the… — DeRay Mckesson Copy Share Image
In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
I never thought black people would say I wasn't black enough. It didn't turn me into a bully - it just put… — Tionne Watkins Copy Share Image
Black people have this thing about calling themselves apes and monkeys I know they get real (whatever) and I don't blame em'.… — Sean Price 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
Black people lived right by the railroad tracks, and the train would shake their houses at night. I would hear it as… — Little Richard Copy Share Image
Traveling in the segregated South for black people was humiliating. The very fact that there were separate facilities was to say to… — Diane Nash Copy Share Image
A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked... . We as black people, we as… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Before the advent of the white man, black people were doing all kinds of things with their hair. The rejection of kinks… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
