When you watch TV, I didn't know black people were that happy. I had no idea they were that happy. I'm trying… — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
Your heart is black, Your mind is gold, When yah lose'in think like a winner When in doubt think again. Whatever the… — TheDarkShadow Copy Share Image
The only way the two can have equal job opportunities is if black people have factories as, as well as white people… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
There is a solidarity that black people can find in celebrating the athletic success of our own, especially in sports where our… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
Police violence is the tip of the iceberg when it relates to the conditions overall of black people across the globe. — Alicia Garza Copy Share Image
Everything about us black people is complicated, us being here, being a minority, being a woman, all those things are complicated. — Nicole Beharie Copy Share Image
“black people frequently disqualified themselves even without the WHITES ONLY sign in view” — Margot Lee Shetterly 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
Black people are on earth for one purpose: to destroy, and not to build. The reason: It's not in them to show… — Jesse Lee Peterson 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
My 'Black Panther' run really wasn't about Black Panther. It was about Ross. It was about exploding myths about black superheroes, black… — Christopher Priest Copy Share Image
I've always been the underdog, and I've always had to work much harder than the next person just to get a look.… — August Alsina Copy Share Image
When I started, black people were either victims or they were the perpetrators; they were the boogie men who jumped out of… — Joe Morton 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
I met one child there eleven years old, speaking three languages [in Guinea]. He could speak English, French and Malinke. Speaking my… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
A white lady came running up to me after a show. She goes, What gives you the right to do jokes about… — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image
Since I learned the truth in Mecca, my dearest friends have come to include all kinds -- some Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“I don't expect everyone to feel the same way that I do about land. For so many of us, the scars are… — J. Drew Lanham Copy Share Image
“Here is your law enforcement and media question of the day: Was the TV show COPS real or BS? It might have… — Colin Flaherty Copy Share Image
“I suppose it was a mistake to sketch in a background for the movie, in which I described a likely mix of… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
I'll start with the reality. If we're having problems nationally, we're having problems on the state level and then on the local… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
“Black people are not the descendants of kings. We are—and I say this with big pride—the progeny of slaves. If there’s any… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“There is an ethnic component lurking in the background of my story. In our race-conscious society, our vocabulary often extends no further… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“I don't like the way our community throws the word around like it's water, because it's a derogatory term. A lot of… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
I don't stand for the black side, I don't stand for white side, I stand for GODS side. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us. — Evelyn Boyd Granville Copy Share Image
Actually, some of the things I experienced as a child still linger on; what the white man has done to the black… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
I grew up part of the MTV generation. I saw Biggie Smalls and Jay-Z on TV and I thought: 'Wow, look at… — Ashley Walters Copy Share Image
Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it. — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
Black people have always loved the blues - they basically created the blues. — Princess Nokia Copy Share Image
I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminshes fear. — Rosa Parks Copy Share Image
Historically, you've had really muddy, unforgiving, unintentional images of black people. — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
In regards to black people, we have a treasure trove of information that nobody else really has. — Linda Johnson Rice Copy Share Image
I'm able to take myself out of the celebrity bubble and the profile that I'm at, and look at what black people… — Tobias Harris Copy Share Image
Black people have been killed for directing their gaze at the wrong person. I want my subjects to reclaim their right to… — Dawoud Bey Copy Share Image
I want to be able to tell black people something they don't know, something about our own lives. — Stanley Nelson Jr Copy Share Image
To be Christian is to be one of those whom God has chosen. God has chosen black people! — James H. Cone Copy Share Image
I heard a white writer say, 'Oh, I'd never put black people in my writing, I'm afraid I would offend someone by… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
What would America be like if we loved black people as much as we loved black culture? — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image