The casualties in the Civil War amount to more than all other wars - all other American wars combined. More people died… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The money I have made and will be making means nothing to me compared to the fact that about half of the… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
For centuries in this country, black people were seen as three-fifths of a person. So when you hear the national anthem or… — Maya Moore Copy Share Image
Dream of the land , my soul is from. I hear a hand, stroke on the drum. Shades of delight, cocoa veiw.… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, as I tell my white friends, we, as black people, we're never going to be successful - not because of you… — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
People in apartheid South Africa can tell you that God cursed black people when they cursed Him. And so the hermetic people… — Desmond Tutu 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
When I started, I was aware of using the black as a rhetorical device. It's understanding that black people come in a… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
We're going to start seeing that it's actually less about race and more about class in the future. As much as we… — Pharrell Williams 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
What I would really like to have been, given a perfect world, is a jazz pianist. I mean jazz. I don't mean… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Black people loving and losing is something we don’t see enough of. We’re always in these heightened situations like something big is… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I can speak for pop music and representation is nowhere near where it should be. We're taking inspiration from black people but… — Leigh-Anne Pinnock Copy Share Image
“And just as some conceptualize racism as an inherent property of all white people, there are those who view trauma as a… — Bradley Campbell Copy Share Image
When I say the n-word, black people are clear that I'm on their side. And it's not disingenuous - I am on… — Neal Brennan Copy Share Image
I remember that my mother used to take me to see ballets, especially if there were black people in them. — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
“To him and most of the other Black people I'd met, I was an Oreo. It” — Ben Burgess Jr Copy Share Image
The media love to cover black people on the front page. After all, when you live in a society that will lock… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we're complicated. — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
I don't want to make black people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money; I want to give them the opportunity… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
“When I started doing community organizing in Boston's neighborhoods, working on all the issues that had affected my family - violence, poverty,… — Michael Patrick MacDonald Copy Share Image
“The fact that some African Americans have experienced great success in recent years does not mean that something akin to a racial… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Black people are experiencing a systemic disadvantage, and it goes back to slavery, which was not that long ago. — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
