Twenty-five, 30 years ago, the barometer of human rights in the United States were black people. That is no longer true. The… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
“Mark Twain made black people look like buffoons," [says Michael]. Mort doesn't look up. He doesn't know what we're talking about, but… — Paul Acampora Copy Share Image
Look at black people dying and suffering in South Africa. I ask why. We've dropped bombs on no one, we've harmed no… — Ron Dellums Copy Share Image
Sometimes it seems as if I have spent the first half of my life refusing to let white people define me and… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I think black people have to be in control of their own image because film is a powerful medium. We can't just… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
I do think we can be a little less PC when it comes to sports, though. Just once I want to hear… — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image
For a musician to be good, he has to have humanity and care about the other guy. And as for blues -… — Harry Dean Stanton Copy Share Image
The working-class Africans are not doing very well, and one of the problems is their education is so shocking. It is routinely… — Justin Cartwright 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
“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
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
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
“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
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
As long as people continue to embrace racism, ignore racism, make excuses for racism, and try to hide racism, we will forever… — Stephanie Lahart Copy Share Image
How did we lose our culture? Black people used to all do the same thing on Saturdays. We all watched "Soul Train"… — DJ Quik Copy Share Image
America that is divided against itself cannot stand, and we cannot say we have all of this unity they say we have… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Latinos outnumber Black people now. I'm not too happy about it. Because it's only a matter of time before we lose our… — Alonzo Bodden Copy Share Image
“Has this situation made you fearful of cops?" she eventually asks. "I don't know," I say truthfully. "My uncle's a cop. I… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
If you're to look at people's social networks, not a lot of white people have a social network that has lots of… — Alicia Garza Copy Share Image
What Black Consciousness seeks to do is to produce real black people who do not regard themselves as appendages to white society.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself, and that is what has happened to the American… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
When I found photography, I found this other kind of portraiture of black families and black people who were photographing themselves or… — Amy Sherald Copy Share Image
When I came to England it wasn't what it is now, then the black people were very rarely strong. I had a… — Buchi Emecheta Copy Share Image
My black brothers and sisters - of all religious beliefs, or of no religious beliefs - we all have in common the… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The projects that I end up doing, that I want to be involved with in any way, have always been projects that… — Chadwick Boseman Copy Share Image
There was a certain feeling I developed as a young person for black people. Somehow they were able to get pleasure out… — Sam Phillips Copy Share Image
I'd like to state that Spike Lee is not saying that African American culture is just for black people alone to enjoy… — Spike Lee 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
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
As much as I think it is necessary and desirable for white people to have an expanded view of the black American… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
I say if black people don't unite and begin to support themselves, their communities and their families, they might as well begin… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Just as the white man and every other person on this earth has God-given rights, natural rights, civil rights, any kind of… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“Jim Crow dominated the lives of black people in America from 1890 well into the twentieth century. From conception to coffin, there… — Carol Anderson Copy Share Image
Do you have any idea what Ali meant to black people? He was the leader of a nation, the leader of Black… — Reggie Jackson Copy Share Image
I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
If half-black Barack Obama had decided years ago to call himself white - which his genes certainly entitled him to do -… — Eric Liu 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
![“Mark Twain made black people look like buffoons," [says Michael]. Mort doesn't look up. He doesn't know what we're talking about, but that doesn't stop him from joining the conversation. "Michael," says Mort, "Mark Twain made everybody look like buffoons. He was an equal opportunity buffoon maker.” quote by Paul Acampora](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/090/paul-acampora-25334_black-people_mark-twain-made-black-people-look-like-b_3118392.jpg)
![“We [Black people] have always used our creativity to battle and we're not the only ones. Black Americans are certainly leaders in that simply because we were denied education and dealt with enforced illiteracy. But people seem to always forget that literacy is not the only way of learning things…” quote by Nikki Giovanni](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3d9/nikki-giovanni-1757_battle_we-black-people-have-always-used-our-cre_3096037.jpg)
