I'm going to let you in on a little secret: Black people are not afraid of White people. We're afraid of 'crazy'… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost,… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people… — Jean-Michel Basquiat Copy Share Image
Black people don't talk about diabetes that much. I never knew anything. I thought everyone had an uncle with a leg cut… — Sherri Shepherd Copy Share Image
In black America there's such a thing as passing, the black people who are light skinned and they will pass for white. — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
Either black people end up being the best in sports, or else it's show business. You know, we all got rhythm. — Diana Ross Copy Share Image
All disco singers are non-professionals who can't do live shows. It loses what black people have created. — Wilson Pickett Copy Share Image
We know that there are people in our nation, black people, who are systematically being disenfranchised in a number of spheres in… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
I'm thankful to be a mixed racial person in skateboarding. I'm part Japanese too, so when I go over to Japan everyone… — Nyjah Huston Copy Share Image
It's extremely important for white athletes to speak out for racial justice. Black people and the black community have been fighting this… — Breanna Stewart Copy Share Image
Whether it's on the court or off, there's a sense of understanding that you get from - and I'm not going to… — Jerami Grant Copy Share Image
White people moving into Brooklyn, I don't see anything wrong with that. I think that's fine and I think that's beautiful, but… — Big Daddy Kane Copy Share Image
In the spirit of debunking racial stereotypes, the one that black people don't like to swim, I'm going to tell you how… — Mellody Hobson Copy Share Image
White communities - and I exempt poor white communities from this - have power over their representation. White people have the ability… — Yance Ford Copy Share Image
We live in a world where black people are targeted for death and destruction, and we should not be surprised when moments… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
I think that for the most part, black people specifically have sort of been used as props in TV shows as a… — Lena Waithe 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 toward… — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
“With Notes on the State of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson emerged as the preeminent American authority on Black intellectual inferiority. This status would… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
Black people need some peace. White people need some peace. And we are going to have to fight. We're going to have… — Fred Hampton Copy Share Image
Look at how lucky white people are compared to black people, who have suffered so much just because of their skin color,… — Severn Cullis-Suzuki Copy Share Image
Once you dive into the African-American struggle or whatever you want to call it and you look past that, you realize that… — Joey Badass Copy Share Image
I remember one summer I played, like, with the granddaughter of this known Klan member. Like, all summer we caught cicadas. And… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
“I tell sincere white people, 'Work in conjunction with us- each of us working among our own kind.' Let sincere white individuals… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“But some people don’t want to believe that, because if varying degrees of blackness become normalized, then that means society has to… — Phoebe Robinson Copy Share Image
I think that was one of the reasons I loved 'Moonlight.' I don't remember if there's a single white person in that… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
If the world was a jacket where would the black people live? In the HOOOD ! Lol — Devin Cotton Copy Share Image
It's a good feeling, that you can put your heart out there, no matter how black it is, and people can understand… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
When our founding fathers drafted the Constitution and Bill of Rights, black people weren't even considered human. — Claudette Colvin Copy Share Image
Black people are experiencing a systemic disadvantage, and it goes back to slavery, which was not that long ago. — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
“Oh Maker, what did they really say about your black creation? I think you made a beautiful work of art on a… — Chinonye J. Chidolue Copy Share Image
Mainstream media has convinced people that black people aren't relatable. So when a Jewish person comes up to me and is all,… — Issa Rae Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what's at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I grew up watching shows like 'Martin' and 'Fresh Prince' and 'Moesha,' and I was inspired by all these shows. When I… — Jermaine Fowler Copy Share Image
I spent seven months in Africa and came back saying there isn't anything you can say about black people that you couldn't… — Larry Rivers Copy Share Image
I'm the descendant of enslaved black people in this country. You could've been born in 1820 if you were black and looked… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
We have always policed the bodies of people of color, and black people in particular. The Jim Crow South is a classic… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
“Like I said, at Williamson I'm cool by default because I'm black. I can go out there and do a silly dance… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
I think that many black people thought this would be a wonderful and extraordinary thing, for a black family to occupy the… — Randall Kennedy Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
