There were no black images of dignity, no images of beautiful black people. There was this big hole. I tried to fill… — Roy DeCarava Copy Share Image
Wherever there's a prison, for the most part, especially where there's Black people, it's overcrowded. I don't know who really gets out. — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
You know why Guns n' Roses aren't a good band? Because no black people listen to them. — Anton Newcombe Copy Share Image
I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery. — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa. — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
It doesn't do any good to just be on the side of black people. The funnier comedic position is to be on… — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
They don't let many black people in the governor's mansion in Alabama, unless they're cleaning. — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
If all we are for is black people and white people who like black people, then I have nothing to say to… — Van Jones 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
If I make a joke about black people or Asian people or whatever, and then an Asian comes up to me afterwards… — Brad Williams Copy Share Image
Before the advent of the white man, black people were doing all kinds of things with their hair. The rejection of kinks… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
I come from a proud, Black family, and generations of proud, Black women. So I've always grown up with that special armor,… — Jade Cargill Copy Share Image
The racist dog policemen must withdraw immediately from our communities, cease their wanton murder and brutality and torture of black people, or… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
You have to look at the fact that Hip Hop is under attack. It's not just Hip Hop but Black people, Latino… — Afrika Bambaataa Copy Share Image
It's so important to create roles and characters and projects that feature black people in a way that's not specifically targeted towards… — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
“You can’t host or show some black people good time without regretting, Because the same people you are showing good time. You… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
“To my African brother and sisters. If you manage to go overseas or to other countries. When you get there .Please don’t… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
Words have consequences, and I judge people not only by their words but what they do. And if you look at people… — Joan Walsh Anglund Copy Share Image
I was more than anything a radical. I was more sympathetic to Malcolm X than Martin Luther King because Malcolm X was… — Walter E. Williams 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
In America, the poor have been invisibilised, because obviously this model of success that has been held out to the world must… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Most of the things I'm talking about are essential human rights. I don't think it should be political to say that children… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
Black History Month is a great celebration for Black people everywhere. I just hope we get to the point as Black people… — Crystal Robinson Copy Share Image
What mostly prevents black people from voting is that drug laws send them to prison, and then they can't vote. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“We are a beautiful people. Even the way we face and overcome challenges is beautiful. Our beauty deserves to be elevated and… — D.B. Mays Copy Share Image
Nothing is out of our realm, because it has nothing to do with color. As black people, we're not different from anyone… — Marla Gibbs Copy Share Image
Country music came from Black people - it all started with the blues and bluegrass. — Jimmie Allen Copy Share Image
When I first ran for governor... I had to stand up for segregation or be defeated, but I never insulted black people… — George Wallace Copy Share Image
I grew up figure skating, and in figure skating there is only a handful of black people at the time figure skating… — Brandi Rhodes Copy Share Image
The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
I want a lot of people to see my movies. More black people. More white people. I want to make that connection. — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
If you're going to make black movies only about black people, that's as bad as white movies only about white people. — Rita Moreno Copy Share Image
“Man, people don' need no monster to make 'em do evil-hearted shit. All it take is a brown face, or somebody wearin'… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious. — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
There are certain things black people just don't do, OK? Skiing is one of them. — Reggie Miller 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
You always see black people complaining about this and that, but you never see me complaining about how slow they work on… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima. — J. B. Smoove Copy Share Image
“So we are all black people, so-called Negroes, second-class citizens, ex-slaves.” — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
