We have landowners, small growers. We have people who are holding onto land that was acquired by their families after slavery. They… — Shirley Sherrod Copy Share Image
Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free. Never forget that for 250 years black… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Reggae music don't really focus on one thing, you know. If reggae music is speaking about the struggle of people, and the… — Burning Spear Copy Share Image
Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
That kind of thing happens to black people every day in this country, and they don't receive that kind of sentence he… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
What frustrates me is to see African-Americans behave as though what European-Americans say is worthwhile. It simply isn't. It's just some silly… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
The black people of America have been victims of violence at the hands of the white men for four hundred years, and… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
It's always seemed to me that black people's grace has been with what they do with language. In Lorrain, Ohio, when I… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
You don't have a baby based on that publicity madness. People don't live like that. Especially black people who were raised in… — Whitney Houston Copy Share Image
But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people. — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
Black people are more likely to be incarcerated than white people. That's just a fact and it's regrettable and it's got to… — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
Hollywood has had a very limited way of telling stories about black people. — KiKi Layne Copy Share Image
For me, soldiers are all equal. Those black people wore your same uniform, fought on your side, and so you will be… — Erwin Rommel Copy Share Image
“It’s such a strange thing, but in two years of hustling I never once thought of it as a crime. I honestly… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
History has proven that art depicting black people cannot be disentangled from the political implications that such art has on their lives.… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
The Nation of Islam was the biggest contributor to the Million Man March, but poor people gave their nickels, dimes and dollars;… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
In general, the mass media tell us that black people are not loving, that our lives are so fraught with violence and… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
I don't like the fact that most black people or black comedians have to present themselves in a flamboyant way. It's good… — Franklyn Ajaye Copy Share Image
Black people are inferior to Caucasians. Blacks constitute a totally distinct group; they overshadow the country with the germ... of evil. — David Wilmot Copy Share Image
The only thing I really feel is necessary is that the black people, not only in Mississippi, will have to actually upset… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
The problem is that white people see racism as conscious hate, when racism is bigger than that. Racism is a complex system… — Scott Woods Copy Share Image
The Mississippi of 1920 was an exceptionally dangerous place for Black people. But my grandfather deeply believed in helping create opportunities to… — Mike Espy Copy Share Image
