I learned that if you bring black people together, you bring them together with a song. To this day, I don't understand… — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
“if at all, since the Civil War. In Greenwood, many black workers were still earning 30 cents an hour and returning huge… — Ian Bell Copy Share Image
The liberal-run institution of journalism does not allow probing of real problems facing black people. That is prohibited. It might lead to… — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
Here's the thing. When we talk about race relations in America or racial progress, it's all nonsense. There are no race relations.… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
It's possible and available to any artist to be himself or herself on their own terms, to be accepted and embraced by… — Mos Def 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
In Soviet times, the border was closed, so we couldn't get out of the country, and I had been reading Robinson Crusoe.… — Wladimir Klitschko Copy Share Image
It was just a wonderful experience, one for the memory book for sure. The sad thing about it was that the picture… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
In my time since moving to the United States, I've found that there is a dearth of great writing for black people.… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
I think that any black man who teaches black people to turn the other cheek and suffer peacefully after they've been turning… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“The journalist Rebecca Traister observed once that there was “an Indiana Jones–style, ‘It had to be snakes’ inevitability” about me facing Trump.… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
Farrakhan got everybody together for the Million Man March and everything. But Farrakhan don't like the Jews. Which is bugged. I get… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
“The struggle being waged today, where there is any struggle being waged at all, is closer to the one that was addressed… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
“If you’re telling a non-black person about something racist that happened to you, make sure you are not bitter. Don’t complain. Be… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
America is not all white people. It's not all black people. It's not all Mexican people. We together, and we all relate… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
I think that's the obstacle, because once black people hear Bernie Sanders policy, it's almost instantaneous they switch. Hillary is good enough,… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing… — Ed Smith Copy Share Image
It's important to tell the story you're telling in the right way, which might involve black people or people of whatever heritage… — Ethan Coen Copy Share Image
People come up and say, 'Thank you' for showing a black family loving their masculine-presenting child and for undoing the myth of… — Yance Ford Copy Share Image
My father identified as a black man. No one asked him because he was clearly black. But people always ask me. If… — Mariah Carey 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'm going to be a fashion icon in a minute. I'm not going to do it in a corny manner. I have… — ASAP Rocky Copy Share Image
When Black people seriously organize and take up arms to fight for our liberation, there will be a lot of white people… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
Our problem is that we don't have enough people in America, including black people, who are progressive and willing to sacrifice their… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Look at the people who are kind of the funniest cultures, they're the cultures of the people who have been the most… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
Jesse Jackson also said he thought Barack Obama was talking down to black people by lecturing them on things like fatherhood and… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
People always say 'You do racial comedy.' And I don't, exactly. I do cultural comedy. Because race and culture are two different… — Russell Peters Copy Share Image
If you see black people being portrayed in this one way well then, when you see a black person in real life,… — KiKi Layne Copy Share Image
I spent 12 years of my life writing stories without black people. That's insane to me. It's insane that I could have… — Tomi Adeyemi Copy Share Image
We have to create a range, and we have to let there be possibilities. And basically, by showing there are different types… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
I remember when someone told me phones were going to have cameras on them, and I thought that was the dumbest idea… — Arthur Jafa Copy Share Image
For black people, everything we do has to be ratified and endorsed by a power structure that is white. And that reinforces… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
My personal history, along with the history of many black people in this country, is rife with trauma born out of anti-black… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
“If Black people make up 13.2 percent of the US population, then Black people should make up somewhere close to 13 percent… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
Black people watch more television than anybody else, which makes it legitimate to talk about television. Its anesthetizing effect has been quite… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
We're told that independent film lovers... folks that are used to watching art house films, won't come out and see a film… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
Dr. King's policy was, if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to… — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
Black history isn't a separate history. This is all of our history, this is American history, and we need to understand that.… — Karyn Parsons Copy Share Image
