You know the AME Church has a history of empowering black people and having an international outlook. So it was the women… — A'Lelia Bundles 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
Black community, I think as a whole America is dealing with the issue of homophobia. We got to be really honest about… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
“Terrorism carried the day. Federal troops withdrew from the South in 1877. The dream of Reconstruction died. For the next century, political… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“One such question revolved around the informal institution of black kids eating together in the cafeteria. I’m going to let you in… — Baratunde Thurston Copy Share Image
Kools and Newports were for black people and lower-class whites. Camels were for procrastinators, those who wrote bad poetry, and those who… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
The biggest surprise for me, without a doubt, was that the first black people who came to the United States weren't the… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“Among the early warnings was one in an article appearing in the New York Times Magazine of December 13, 1970, by a… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
We have to look at for example the increasing globalization of capital, the whole system of transitional capitalism now which has had… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
There are Black women who die while trying to give life to newborns because Black people are always overlooked, under-cared-for, underprivileged. It's… — August Alsina Copy Share Image
“Many people in Nixon’s camp had genuine faith in affirmative action. It wasn’t designed to fail, but it wasn’t designed to succeed,… — Tanner Colby Copy Share Image
You throw hurtful words at me. You beat me down with your stares and your insults. You think you have got inside… — MzLady Bee Copy Share Image
“The temptation is to insist that black men 'choose' to be criminals; the system does not make them criminals, at least not… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
All people, all cultures have some sort of racism. It's a cultural thing and I think that part of the issue is… — Montel Vontavious Porter Copy Share Image
I wanted to play roles which offered new ways of viewing black women and black people in general- and I have done… — Naomie Harris Copy Share Image
Racism is a cancer. Black people have been dealing with this ever since we landed on these shores in shackles and chains.… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
After Hitler was destroyed, there was the threat of Stalin, but it was always the world pressure that was upon America that… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“I was astonished, bewildered. This was America, a country where, whatever its faults, people could speak, write, assemble, demonstrate without fear. It… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“That is what it truly means to think as an antiracist: to think there is nothing wrong with Black people, to think… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“There's no pride for me in my skin being white. I was born this way, I had no choice, I had no… — T.J. Kirk 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
Here you have 22 million Afro-Americans, black people today, catching more hell than Patrick Henry ever saw. And I'm here to tell… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“For realists, the true story of the Civil War illuminates the problem of ostensibly sober-minded compromise with powerful, and intractable, evil. For… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Part of what I am dealing with, with this blackness, is asking the question, "Where are those black people, who are as… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Things like racism are institutionalized. You might not know any bigots. You feel like "well I don't hate black people so I'm… — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
I was grateful to see President Obama's victory speech. I was over the moon to see the audience. There were about 60… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I'm very disappointed in Barack Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
