“because white men can't police their imagination black people are dying” — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
Black people know what white people mean when they say “law and order”. — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
“To him and most of the other Black people I'd met, I was an Oreo. It” — Ben Burgess Jr Copy Share Image
“There is no black history month, the entire human race calendar is black.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Dream of the land , my soul is from. I hear a hand, stroke on the drum. Shades of delight, cocoa veiw.… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
I think that humanity is at an all-time low in how we value life, especially among young Black people. We just don't… — Michael B. Jordan Copy Share Image
Throughout history there have been black people who have played mammies, all sorts of offensive images, who didn't mind doing it. — Marc Lamont Hill Copy Share Image
The easy answer is to say that it's a part for black people to see black heroes, but to me it's important… — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
I think that's the core of black aesthetics: the ability to improvise. That is what has enabled our [black people's] survival. — August Wilson Copy Share Image
“Any ministry to black people which is not designed to effect their empowerment is designed to perpetuate their enslavement.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There was a great deal of inbreeding between the Indians and the slaves. Genetically speaking, black people are some part black, some… — Alex Haley 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
In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country: that's the… — H. Rap Brown Copy Share Image
It was natural to see the struggle for dignity for black people in America as a sister struggle of the Jewish struggle.… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
The old racism of imperialism not only rendered the postwar political elite unable to see black people as full British citizens, it… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
“Neo-Nazis, white nationalists, racist skinheads, neo-Confederates, the KKK - up until that morning, I'd had no idea those were all different things,… — Jennifer Latham Copy Share Image
I didn't run into racism until we moved to Nassau when I was ten and a half, but it was vastly different… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Do not be naive. AIDS is not a curse from God to Africans or the black people. It is a tool to… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Black people created punk - the band Death was way before The Ramones. Same with Bad Brains. If you think about it,… — Princess Nokia Copy Share Image
In 1990, when we started the Black Community Crusade for Children, we were always talking about all children, but we paid particular… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Black Privilege is a unearned right given to black americans and they were taught to ignore it so it wouldn't cause any… — Daryl Jones Copy Share Image
There never has been a desire on the part of the government that the struggle of Black people in America should be… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
Dr. King’s policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States. His major assumption was that… — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
“The animosity I felt from the colored people I encountered growing up was one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
God made men by baking them in an oven, but he forgot about the first batch, and that's how Black people were… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“The system's acts are covert, just as the racist ideas of the people are implicit. I could not wrap my head around… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
Black jurors sit on juries every day and convict black people every day. — Johnnie Cochran Copy Share Image
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