A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I'm light skinned, and I used to lean on that because that's something a lot of black people pride themselves on, and… — Chance the Rapper Copy Share Image
No one should advocate any peaceful suffering to black people, unless the black - white man is going to practice the same… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If white people need colleges to furnish teachers, ministers, lawyers, and doctors, do black people need nothing of the sort? — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
I think everyone is aware there's something wrong about the way violence is enacted against Black people in this country. — Nia DaCosta Copy Share Image
When we address the disparities facing black people, we get a lot closer to a true democracy where all lives matter. — Alicia Garza Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the Black man will only reach his full potential when he learns to draw upon the strengths and… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
Black Lives Matter is one iteration of a much larger struggle to fight for black people's freedom. — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
“The official erasure of any existence before enslavement – as if black Americans did not exist before the yolk and the chains… — Bonnie Greer Copy Share Image
I am just a pawn. I was just here. They are after a bigger thing, they would love to take us back… — Shirley Sherrod Copy Share Image
It's always baffled me why BET looks the way it does. This is Black Entertainment Television. Why are we up there, then,… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
They'll touch you and look at your skin to see if it's paint. I'm not playing. All Russia is not like that.… — Gerald Green Copy Share Image
There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The lived experience of Black people in the United States has demonstrated countless times that we are neither seen as 'law-abiding citizens'… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
The same rebellion, the same impatience, the same anger that exists in the hearts of the dark people in Africa and Asia… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, black pride became newly popular again. Suddenly a lot of black people were wearing the fake kente… — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
“I had never read a book written by an African-American. I didn't know that black people could write books. I didn't know… — Endesha Ida Mae Holland Copy Share Image
“But most Americans cannot comprehend the scrutiny that black people have been under since the days we were dragged here in bondage.… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
You see Martin Luther King is dead and Huey Newton is not. And Malcolm X is dead and Bobby Seale is not.… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
When you think of the KKK, they actually have as their emblem a fiery cross. And they don't see any contradiction between… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
It had long been true, and prisoners knew this better than anyone, that the poorer you were the more likely you were… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Politically progressive black people on the Left who are not nationalist, like myself, share a perspective that promotes the eradication of white… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
I think in order to achieve real change, we as the black community need to come up with real asks and we… — Maverick Carter Copy Share Image
You're going to have a racial explosion, and a racial explosion is more dangerous than an atomic explosion. It's going to explode… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Black people mad Romney's white. White people mad Obama's black. Me? I'm mad no one cares about their policies or our country. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's a significant question: should black people only adopt black children, and white people white children? — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Copy Share Image
I think we must never, ever demonize one another. That's true not just black people to black people; that's human being to… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The notion that Black people must be protected from a free ID to secure the vote is not just insane, it is… — Mark Robinson Copy Share Image
“For that more ennobling narrative, as for much of American history, the fact of black people is a problem.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I love being black. People look at me like I'm crazy cause I love myself, and I look at them like they… — Taisha N Wright Copy Share Image
Like many black people, I initially viewed the armed forces with a degree of suspicion. — Clive Lewis Copy Share Image
Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
For me, as a child, I certainly thought that there were more black people in the world than white people. — Keegan-Michael Key Copy Share Image
Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
There are not enough Black people in America that we can just throw out our problematic brothers. — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people. — Linda Chavez Copy Share Image
Everybody else is out being themselves at work, so I don't understand why black people have to change the way they talk… — Deon Cole Copy Share Image
My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
We got no wealthy black people. We got rich people. Shaq is rich. The guy who signs his checks is wealthy. — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
“When other people are as outraged and as curious about those problems as black people are,” he says. “Then maybe we can… — Kennedy Ryan Copy Share Image
