Hollywood has had a very limited way of telling stories about black people. — KiKi Layne Copy Share Image
The Black Lives Matter movement is stronger when non-black people step up for it. — Demba Ba Copy Share Image
“It took around 500 years to human to find out that black people are human and still they don't know why the… — Emmanuel St-Pierre Copy Share Image
On TV, as in life, white folks are allowed to make mistakes, but usually, black people aren't. — Yvonne Orji Copy Share Image
Music played a large role in the survival of the black people in America — that and a sense of humor that… — Redd Foxx Copy Share Image
I like to think my work is furthering black culture by educating and empowering black people. — Franchesca Ramsey Copy Share Image
I sort of feel like that's the most revolutionary thing we can do with our narrative for me as Black people is… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
Fools say that all black people are alike but I believe that fools are the only ones who are all alike — Nadim K9 Kanaan Copy Share Image
Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by… — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
Soul was the music made by and for black people. For most of the Sixties it was thoroughly divorced from white popular… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
People notice if you are black. People notice if you are female. We are certainly not either colorblind or gender-blind in this… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Here's something black people have known for a couple hundred years: niggas are crazy. Now black people don't like talking about crazy… — Huey Freeman Copy Share Image
I grew up on what everybody called a plantation - but believe me, it wasn't a plantation. It was just an old… — Sam Phillips Copy Share Image
Black people don't hijack planes, alright? Now I'll be the first to admit, we steal a lot of stuff, but we do… — Alonzo Bodden 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
If you read the memoirs of slave-owning families, you'd be hard pressed to find evidence of black people in the lives of… — Edward Ball Copy Share Image
“Call up the ever-pure, the effulgent and the ever-radiant character of true humanism in yourself and in others, and no racism shall… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“And now the lies of the Civil War and the lies of these post-racial years began to resonate with each other, and… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
When someone asks me about violence, I just find it incredible, because what it means is that the person who’s asking that… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
We [black people] don't respect our elders. Besides artists, we don't respect Frederick Douglass. We don't respect Martin Luther King. You look… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
If Id lived prior to the 1980s, it would have been different, because I would have been playing to prove African Americans… — Venus Williams Copy Share Image
As far as I was concerned, the Panthers were 'baaaaaad.' The Party was more than bad; it was bodacious. The sheer audacity… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
“We like to keep separate the evils of our national past from the sacredness of our ideals. That separation allows us to… — Eddie S. Glaude Jr Copy Share Image
I think that the Vietnam War era is important because we tend not to want to revisit it. For black people, there… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
I remember when I had my show [The Chris Rock Show on HBO], I used to run my show. It was so… — Scott Raab Copy Share Image
“Only black people can use controversial racial terms such as “Negro.” — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
I don't have a problem with black people - half my country is black people! — Mohamedou Ould Slahi Copy Share Image
![“We [black people] don't respect our elders. Besides artists, we don't respect Frederick Douglass. We don't respect Martin Luther King. You look at every Martin Luther King Boulevard out here, and it's a crack block. That's not because of white people. That's because of black leadership. We just…” quote by KRS-One](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/92d/krs-one-2404_art_we-black-people-don-t-respect-our-elders_1985041.jpg)
![“I remember when I had my show [The Chris Rock Show on HBO], I used to run my show. It was so hard to get people to bring sketches to me. No one had ever worked for a black person before. Even the black people hadn't worked for a black person. It literally took a month or two for everybody to know…” quote by Scott Raab](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0d3/scott-raab-19060_black_i-remember-when-i-had-my-show-the-chris_1998393.jpg)
