There's a price tag on everything including black people's lives and what they do with them. — Vince Staples Copy Share Image
“Don’t you know that slavery was outlawed?” “No,” the guard said, “you’re wrong. Slavery was outlawed with the exception of prisons. Slavery… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
I will not walk away from the people and communities whom I love deeply. I will continue to raise my voice for… — Linda Sarsour Copy Share Image
Hip-Hop isn't just music. It also a spiritual movement of blacks! You can't just call hip-hop a trend. — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
“Respectability politics is the dogged belief that if black people just shape up, dress right, and act right, racists would suddenly have… — Nikesh Shukla Copy Share Image
To me, entertainment is really the new plantation. It's the new sugar, the new cotton, that black people work for somebody else… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
There's so many, 'no, black people aren't like that' barriers in mainstream media. — Issa Rae Copy Share Image
I try to write each piece in the language of the piece, so that I'm not using the same language from piece… — Alexis De Veaux Copy Share Image
After Obama became president, I realized that black people could not have put him in the White House - it had to… — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
The way Hollywood and TV is, black people don't have any choice but to see ourselves in white-dominated television shows and stories… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
The Mississippi is not the only river. There's the Tallahatchie and the Big Black. People have been put in the river year… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
The only black people you found were occasional characters or characters who were so feeble-witted that they couldn't manage anything, anyway. I… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I realized with Broadway everything written for black people is usually written in the past, and I'm kind of a contemporary guy.… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
When you talk about "white privilege", you're talking about something systemic. When you're talking about "black privilege" it's something spiritual because we… — Charlamagne Tha God Copy Share Image
Homophobia is easier for black people where black people are concerned. They feel they have the right to correct me on my… — David McAlmont Copy Share Image
Stereotypes wouldn't be so bad if black people were nicer, in general. — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
I think people make certain assumptions about what they're interested in reading or what others would be interested in reading, and when… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Black community, I think as a whole America is dealing with the issue of homophobia. We got to be really honest about… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
Many black people I know are proud of the Irish part of their heritage - an Irish grandparent, say - but they… — Tom Paulin Copy Share Image
Broadcaster: Rap is Dead Black people be like R.I.P They just killed a thug — Giavonna Stayturntup Gillespie Copy Share Image
We have to stop seeing the skin color. I believe that's the most powerful way to change mentalities and behavior. I had… — Omar Sy Copy Share Image
I think that unlearning race for black people is more along the lines of seriously saying blackness isn't real, race isn't real. — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
Jews, black people - any people who are hated or who have suffered, either as individuals or as a people - use… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
