When you're black, you have to deal with so much crap in your life from other black people. It's a dirty, dark… — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
Black people in the US are told all the time, from all aspects, that they're nothing, that they're less than. And of… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Until election day I was being so naive on how much racism still exist in 2012. This is crazy! Our racist is… — Ayeisha Strothers Copy Share Image
What we acknowledged as a nation during the one-and-a-half year trial of George Zimmerman is that the white majority's public imagination of… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
A lot of times, we talk about black people as if being black is all they are. They get up, go to… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
“Imagine for a just a moment, if you will, that the slaves who were brought to America weren’t dark-skinned. Instead, white people… — Aaron B. Powell Copy Share Image
“Tragedy happens - "tragic mistakes" happen - when men act according to their flawed natures, in fulfillment of their preordained destinies. The… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Sometimes black people really want to hold onto our oppression - 'This is ours! This belongs to us.' You can't just talk… — Wanda Sykes Copy Share Image
They don't let many black people in the governor's mansion in Alabama, unless they're cleaning. — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
Black people are pledging their fealty to the state, and yet they aren't getting the same return. This is theft. It's systemized. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
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
Usually we look at it like, "Oh, black people couldn't vote in Mississippi because they had to take a literacy test." But… — Stanley Nelson Jr Copy Share Image
Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four. We own this shit.… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
“They tried to explain to the missionaries that it was they who put Adam and Eve out of the village because they… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
We got no wealthy black people. We got rich people. Shaq is rich. The guy who signs his checks is wealthy. — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
“Every February, my classmates and I were herded into assemblies for a ritual review of the Civil Rights Movement. Our teachers urged… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“I don't like using the word evil because it sounds as if that's all there is to be said about the person.… — Ian McKellan Copy Share Image
I had talked to my agent a lot over the years about not being interested in stereotypical "black films" [because] I didn't… — Zoe Kravitz Copy Share Image
I went to Wellesley College, and it was really hard for me to get a job after I graduated. I would go… — Chirlane McCray Copy Share Image
Reparative justice is not about black people standing on the street corners expecting charities from white folks. This is about building of… — Hilary Beckles Copy Share Image
I came in the gate as an African-American poor kid wanting to be a neurosurgeon but - with American life and the… — Lil B 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
I'm dark-skinned. When I'm around black people, I'm made to feel 'other' because I'm dark-skinned. I've had to wrestle with that, with… — Daniel Kaluuya Copy Share Image
A white lady came running up to me after a show. She goes, What gives you the right to do jokes about… — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image
The revolution is that we can be anything. We don't have to be one thing or the other. The idea that it… — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
