I am tired of people telling me that black people are beneath a standard when we have to be twice as good… — Angela Rye Copy Share Image
Ben Carson said black people worked for less. I have breaking news: we built this joint for free. We didn't build it… — Angela Rye 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
They don't make red noses to fit black people. I have a wide nose like a Volkswagen and I have never had… — Lenny Henry 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
“the only thing wrong with Black people is that we think something is wrong with Black people.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
If you think black people have a motivation problem, open up a Wal-Mart and advertise a thousand jobs. Watch 5,000 people show up. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Your life has to consist of more than 'Black people should unite.' You hope they do, but not twenty-four hours a day. — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
It was illegal for black people and white people to play checkers together in Birmingham. And there were even black and white… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
To me the industry has always said that the lovers and haters and principal characters will always be white in Hollywood, and… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
“If not as a true human, let me tell you as a Biologist, color of the skin does not define an individual’s… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to… — LaToya Jackson Copy Share Image
We must address the real threats of climate change in communities of color and across the Global South, the forced expulsion of… — Cori Bush Copy Share Image
My father was the first black Secret Service agent. He wanted to get into the FBI but J. Edgar Hoover, who was… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
I definitely see the genre opening up a lot more. I don't know if black people don't want to get into country… — Kane Brown Copy Share Image
I grew up in Houston, and I remember we had separate drinking fountains, and black people sat in the balcony of the… — Dennis Quaid Copy Share Image
“White people were, and are, astounded by the holocaust in Germany. They did not know that they could act that way. But… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“The destroyers will rarely be held accountable. Mostly they will receive pensions. And destruction is merely the superlative form of a dominion… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for… — Whitney M. Young Copy Share Image
“As Black people, if there is one thing we can learn from the 60s, it is how infinitely complex any move for… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“All these self-serving efforts by powerful factions to define their racist rhetoric as nonracist has left Americans thoroughly divided over, and ignorant… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
There is no difference. So what, the skin color is a different shade? But what the heck should that mean? Why should… — Amber Hope Copy Share Image
Slavery wasn't something that grew up in the American South. and black people were not the first to be slaves in America.… — Lorne Greene Copy Share Image
“The FHA had adopted a system of maps that rated neighborhoods according to their perceived stability. On the maps, green areas, rated… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Black people do not have AIDS because AIDS is a 'black disease'; black people are getting AIDS because most of them are… — Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
I believe that when it comes to major foreign policy issues, many prefer to have black people seen and not heard. — Cynthia McKinney Copy Share Image
I was responsible for having a clean image. I wanted people to have respect for black people. — Leslie Uggams Copy Share Image
I have the utmost respect and 'aloha' for black people - who have already suffered so much due to racial discrimination and… — Duane Chapman Copy Share Image
I carry a knife now because I read in a white magazine that all black people carry knives. So I rushed out… — Redd Foxx Copy Share Image
I don't see what the big deal about Obama is. He's just another black man, asking for change. — Wanda Sykes Copy Share Image
At night, I always walk down well-lit streets with lots of foot traffic. Far too many automatically deem Black people in dark… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
Kids that I went to school with didn't know how to interact with black people like that. There were only, like, three… — Big Sean Copy Share Image
Not all BLACK girls are stuck up, wear weave, talk loud, are hoes, get pregnant, are ghetto, or ignorant.. — Christian Heggs Copy Share Image
Black people, we built America, and we gave it all of its pop culture and all of its great musical genres. — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
We were taught in school that there was a fundamental difference between black people and white people - that we were superior. — Bruce Grobbelaar Copy Share Image
I love Obama because he is proof all black people don't look alike. Nobody every told me, 'Good morning, Mr. President.' We… — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
I have a no-die clause in every movie. The black people can't be dying all the time. — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
We must create a committee to address the long-standing discrimination against black people in America. — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
I have never really understood why in this country so many people look down on black people. — Lonnie Johnson Copy Share Image
