As Black people, we're very used to empathizing with the world through white people's eyes, because they're the protagonists. I know what… — Rege-Jean Page Copy Share Image
I feel an obligation to use black dancers because there must be more opportunities for them, but not because I'm a black… — Alvin Ailey Copy Share Image
They're people who probably imagine that they would have had a better time in the past. I wouldn't imagine you'd encounter a… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
You cannot collectively, as a society, decide that you are only going to represent one part of a minority. It's like saying… — Jordan Gavaris Copy Share Image
In American history, Black people are usually the ones doing the work, pushing the boundaries of what America is supposed to mean,… — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
I didn't know how to break into that space at all. My perception of voice acting was Cree Summer and Phil LaMarr… — Ayo Edebiri Copy Share Image
Many thought that the abolition of slavery, the end of Jim Crow, and the legislative progress of the Civil Rights Era, among… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
The boundless capacity of the African American spirit in this country to say Hallelujah anyhow, to use our joy as a weapon,… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The history of black people in America, it's so painful. But throughout all that history there has still been the ability of… — KiKi Layne Copy Share Image
“To my African brother and sisters. If you manage to go overseas or to other countries. When you get there .Please don’t… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
“You can’t host or show some black people good time without regretting, Because the same people you are showing good time. You… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
I think that hip-hop should be spelled with a capital "H," and as one word. It's the name of our black people… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
When my family first moved to Hempstead in the 1960s, they were one of the first black families. It used to be… — Prodigy 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
Words have consequences, and I judge people not only by their words but what they do. And if you look at people… — Joan Walsh Anglund Copy Share Image
I was more than anything a radical. I was more sympathetic to Malcolm X than Martin Luther King because Malcolm X was… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Do not be naive. AIDS is not a curse from God to Africans or the black people. It is a tool to… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Black people created punk - the band Death was way before The Ramones. Same with Bad Brains. If you think about it,… — Princess Nokia Copy Share Image
Why would you create a movie for black people if you don't understand the history and perspective of the people you are… — Tim Reid Copy Share Image
When I look at American history, I see how it has been driven by resistance and protest against a system that has… — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black… — A. Philip Randolph Copy Share Image
If I just wanted to put clean, perfect images of black people on the screen for an hour and a half, first… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
“And my father, who never once in his life would have used the word 'nigger,' would smile and give an almost imperceptible… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I didn't like The Wiz and it wasn't because black people were doing it. I didn't like The Wiz because it was… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
We're going to start seeing that it's actually less about race and more about class in the future. As much as we… — Pharrell Williams 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
In the NBA, as in nowhere else in America, white people are utterly beholden to black people, and they're not about to… — David Shields Copy Share Image
I really want the sense of black people being interconnected: If you black and you from Chicago, there's a connective tissue we… — Lena Waithe Copy Share Image
When I started, I was aware of using the black as a rhetorical device. It's understanding that black people come in a… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Trump's position is that the people who are most victimised by black criminals are law-abiding black people, and he's been doing very… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
Even in Jamaica, your own country, coming into youth cricket you need to be from an upscale high school or have a… — Chris Gayle Copy Share Image
There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through… — Alice Walker 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
I didn't run into racism until we moved to Nassau when I was ten and a half, but it was vastly different… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
The old racism of imperialism not only rendered the postwar political elite unable to see black people as full British citizens, it… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country: that's the… — H. Rap Brown Copy Share Image
It was natural to see the struggle for dignity for black people in America as a sister struggle of the Jewish struggle.… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
I've always maintained that black people and women suffer from a presumption of incompetence. The burdens of proof are different. It just… — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share Image
Whenever black folks speak candidly about the horrors of police brutality, the default reaction in the United States isn't to start disrupting… — Jemele Hill Copy Share Image
