“With Notes on the State of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson emerged as the preeminent American authority on Black intellectual inferiority. This status would… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
If you love Black people, why are you destroying Haiti? If you love Black people, why did you, [Hillary] Clinton, stop them… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
The magazines were born out of a need that my parents saw: that there were no magazines that really spoke to black… — Linda Johnson Rice Copy Share Image
White communities - and I exempt poor white communities from this - have power over their representation. White people have the ability… — Yance Ford Copy Share Image
“I suppose it was a mistake to sketch in a background for the movie, in which I described a likely mix of… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
Jim Crow is alive and it's dressed in a Brooks Brothers suit, my friend, instead of a white robe. — Myrlie Evers-Williams Copy Share Image
“Wallowing in nostalgia for a lost Golden Age ruined by meddling liberal outsiders from Washington and New York, previously a white Southern… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
Black child poverty is higher. As I write in the epilogue, "Yes we can. No he didn't. President [Barack] Obama didn't push… — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
I think that the black people in this country have the reached the point where they should reserve the right to do… — Malcolm X 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
Trans people have been repeatedly told that we don't have the right to live. And Black people have been told that by… — Dominique Jackson Copy Share Image
“The system's acts are covert, just as the racist ideas of the people are implicit. I could not wrap my head around… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
The establishment has learned how to co-opt identity politics to put the brakes on economic progress and justice. So I would say… — Jimmy Dore Copy Share Image
Many times, I get young people asking, 'What do you think about black movies?' And I say, 'What are you talking about?… — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
When you dishonor the the utter glory and majesty of black people, you lie. Your heart lies to you and you let… — Sinead O'Connor 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
Everyone else can do violence. You know, Clint Eastwood, Sylvester Stallone, they can all do shoot-'em-ups. Arnold Schwarzenegger can kill 10 people… — Pam Grier 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
“We can move in that direction as a country, in greater polarization - black people amongst blacks, and white amongst whites, filled… — Robert F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The concept of 'purgatory' is in Catholic Church dogma, and most black people are not Catholic - mostly their Christian realities focus… — Harry Lennix Copy Share Image
Nobody has to tell me that this is a serious business. I'm not fighting one man. I'm fighting a lot of men,… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
A lot of people, black, white, mexican, young or old, fat or skinny have a problem being true to they self. They… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
I didn't run into racism until we moved to Nassau when I was ten and a half, but it was vastly different… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us. — Evelyn Boyd Granville Copy Share Image
