Twenty-five, 30 years ago, the barometer of human rights in the United States were black people. That is no longer true. The… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
I wrote two poems about the '81 uprisings: 'Di Great Insohreckshan' and 'Mekin Histri.' I wrote those two poems from the perspective… — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
We kind of reduce our responsibility to not saying the N-word and to condemning the Klansmen, rather than saying many of our… — Nate Parker Copy Share Image
If I just point out the fact that black people hurt each other, too, then we can ignore the fact that other… — Trip Lee 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
If the white man can come here uneducated and as an immigrant, and within 10 or 15 years set up an industry… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
They're people who probably imagine that they would have had a better time in the past. I wouldn't imagine you'd encounter a… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.' — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I really want the sense of black people being interconnected: If you black and you from Chicago, there's a connective tissue we… — Lena Waithe Copy Share Image
“Finally, don’t put on a Let’s Be Fair tone and say “But black people are racist too.” Because of course we’re all… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
You should've heard the roar of these thousands of black people in the room. They were fired up and angry and ready… — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
“The more antiracist W. E. B. Du Bois became, the more he realized that trying to persuade powerful racists was a waste… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
We only put the negative black people on television. We don't put the good, hard-working black people. — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
It doesn't do any good to just be on the side of black people. The funnier comedic position is to be on… — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
If Id lived prior to the 1980s, it would have been different, because I would have been playing to prove African Americans… — Venus Williams Copy Share Image
We're talking about America - a country that's been built on the back of cheap labor. That's addicted to cheap labor. Talk… — Jose Antonio Vargas Copy Share Image
Why can't we have fine black restaurants with fine service by black people who always gave good service? Because we thought that… — Leah Chase Copy Share Image
There were class differences among black people then and there are class differences among black people now. There is still an assumption… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
Black people need some peace. White people need some peace. And we are going to have to fight. We're going to have… — Fred Hampton Copy Share Image
The history of black people in America, it's so painful. But throughout all that history there has still been the ability of… — KiKi Layne Copy Share Image
“Throughout my life as I’ve sought to become a published writer of speculative fiction, my strongest detractors and discouragers have been other… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
I wanted to make sure the focus [in The Land] was on human beings themselves and their decisions, but still connected to… — Steven Caple Jr Copy Share Image
It's no surprise that White people say things when they are together about Black people. — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Today is Martin Luther King Day , and He didn't have a dream that black people would divide up into teamlightskinned and teamdarkskinned. — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
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