“I was born in the US and l have lived in Mexico since 1946. I believe that all these states of being… — Elizabeth Catlett Copy Share Image
I feel like I missed my era, because I remember the time when black people uplifted each other and looked for the… — Michael Jai White Copy Share Image
“I thought about how Juneteenth is a holiday that inspires so much celebration, born from circumstances imbued with so much tragedy. Enslavers… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
I believe that Christianity trains black people, especially black women, to think like slaves, and I believe that Islam is mainly fueled… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
“The prisons in the United States had long been an extreme reflection of the American system itself: the stark life differences between… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The same thing that Uncle Tom did on the plantation before [Abe] Lincoln issued the so-called Emancipation Proclamation.I have no thinking on… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
What's interesting is, most of the people who are fans of the The Wire who black people or cops... most of the… — Lance Reddick Copy Share Image
“chain kept moving, and Ball led the file down through Virginia into North Carolina at a steady pace. As the days wore… — Edward E. Baptist Copy Share Image
As Black people, we're very used to empathizing with the world through white people's eyes, because they're the protagonists. I know what… — Rege-Jean Page Copy Share Image
Dr. King’s policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States. His major assumption was that… — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
“People frequently lie—to themselves and to others. In 2008, Americans told surveys that they no longer cared about race. Eight years later,… — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share Image
White America's live under this accusation that they're racist, they need to prove that they're not racist. In order to prove that… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
These people didn't know anything about black people, so the only thing they could imagine was the worst thing. — Dennis Rodman Copy Share Image
We keep calling for accountability and reinvestment and a push for all of us to imagine a world where black people are… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
When Black people seriously organize and take up arms to fight for our liberation, there will be a lot of white people… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
“I understand now that the only time black people don't feel guilty is when we've actually done something wrong, because that relieves… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
Just reading that - just reading that a person can be black and still perform in blackface, making fun of black people… — Cecile McLorin Salvant Copy Share Image
“If origin defines race, then we are all Africans – we are all black.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
A lot of racism comes from projection. White Americans have a stereotype of black people being criminals purely because they can't acknowledge… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
Attacking the ability of black people to govern through specious claims that we are a danger to white people is nothing short… — Maya Wiley Copy Share Image
To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good. To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
It's bizarre: I've tried to understand why people are into Trump. I really don't think I can. I don't think it's as… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
When I was in school, I conceptually didn't want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history.… — Toyin Odutola Copy Share Image
Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
