Nothing is out of our realm, because it has nothing to do with color. As black people, we're not different from anyone… — Marla Gibbs Copy Share Image
What Black Consciousness seeks to do is to produce real black people who do not regard themselves as appendages to white society.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Where are the exhortations for children to reject the self-defeating stereotypes that reduce black people to violent, oversexed 'gangstas,' minstrel show comedians… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“I never asked Tolstoy to write for me, a little colored girl in Lorain, Ohio. I never asked [James] Joyce not to… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Something happened and I confirmed it. Or I did not write it. There is no seems. I did not say the attack… — Colin Flaherty Copy Share Image
Growing up the way I did, it was tough being one of only a few black people in the town and in… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
“I want to live in a liberated intersectional society. As long as inequality and discrimination exists, I cannot be satisfied with the… — Malebo Sephodi Copy Share Image
There haven't been fundamental structural changes in America. There's been a very important symbolic change and that is the election of Barack… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I got involved in politics in order to help working people in my community - especially the Black people who had gotten… — Vernon Jones Copy Share Image
Ever since the promise of '40 acres and a mule,' we have not delivered for Black people in this country. We have… — Fred Hechinger Copy Share Image
I grew up on what everybody called a plantation - but believe me, it wasn't a plantation. It was just an old… — Sam Phillips Copy Share Image
Michael [Jackson] reconstructed his face and deconstructed the African features into a spooky European geography of fleshly possibilities, and yet what we… — Michael Eric Dyson 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
“Babylon was the government that had outlawed them, the police that had pummeled and killed them. Babylon was the church that damned… — Safiya Sinclair Copy Share Image
I'm sure no intelligent white person, in his or her right white mind, want black men and women marrying their white sons… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
In the gun game, we are the most hunted. The river of blood that washes the streets of our nation flows mostly… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
There's some places where it will be a white person telling you that they can write for Black people better than you… — Janelle James Copy Share Image
We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Most of the things I'm talking about are essential human rights. I don't think it should be political to say that children… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
The black conservative is responsible for making people question an idea that racism must be extinct before black people can overcome. Understanding… — John H. McWhorter Copy Share Image
Obviously I've been friends with loads of white people and there's certain things that happen and even though they're constantly around black… — Michail Antonio Copy Share Image
“When there is more concern for white sports fans in the vicinity of a riot than the black people facing off with… — Cindy Milstein 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
“Vilis still doesn't pass to me but I don't care. Where he comes from (Latvia) they burn black people into tar and… — Stephen Kelman Copy Share Image
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