“Although there was always generosity in the Negro neighborhood, it was indulged on pain of sacrifice. Whatever was given by Black people… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Black people are the only segment in American society that is defined by its weakest elements. Every other segment is defined by… — Jewell Jackson McCabe Copy Share Image
I heard black people sing and the emotion was overwhelming to me. The power of that with all the built in sorrow… — Steve Young Copy Share Image
The most important thing in my life is that trying to ameliorate, redeem, the image in particular of African American men, or… — Harry Lennix Copy Share Image
When things aren't going well for black people, they blame the government. When things aren't going well for white people, they can't… — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
Seattle is like a global gumbo, a melting pot with all kinds of people - the rich, the poor, white people, some… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
For black people, being around white people is sometimes like taking care of babies you don't like, babies who throw up on… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
Black people in America have come from slavery to other forms of being oppressed and there are some things that come with… — Common Copy Share Image
Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Very few Black people ever embraced back to Africa movements, and very few actually, a tiny number actually went back to Africa.… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“That is what the Slave Trade was all about. Not death from poxes and musketry and whippings and malnutrition and melancholy and… — David Bradley Copy Share Image
I want the coal miners, who've been American heroes, who kept the lights put on for black people and white people for… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
In the beginning of the 19th century, maybe forty percent of women and fifty percent of men could produce a signature, which… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Of course in this age of colorblindness, a time when we have supposedly moved "beyond race," we as a nation would feel… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I'm not familiar particularly with Hillary Clinton's neighborhood, but I wish people were a little bit more curious about what we call… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
It's so Canada. On some level, you laugh, but on another level, it's just depressing. We pride ourselves: We're not like the… — Constance Backhouse Copy Share Image
So I was really excited when I came to America about meeting black people. But it was a huge culture shock, because… — Jodie Turner-Smith Copy Share Image
Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty,… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
My 'Black Panther' run really wasn't about Black Panther. It was about Ross. It was about exploding myths about black superheroes, black… — Christopher Priest Copy Share Image
After Obama became president, I realized that black people could not have put him in the White House - it had to… — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
When I started, black people were either victims or they were the perpetrators; they were the boogie men who jumped out of… — Joe Morton Copy Share Image
I've always been the underdog, and I've always had to work much harder than the next person just to get a look.… — August Alsina Copy Share Image
Black people are on earth for one purpose: to destroy, and not to build. The reason: It's not in them to show… — Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
I do identify with being black, and if people don't identify me that way, that's their issue. I'm happy to challenge people's… — Rashida Jones Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about Georgia is, Atlanta is teeming with middle-class black people and black people with money - and yet there… — Richard Benjamin Copy Share Image
I have two younger brothers, and I know my parents have spoken to them about driving and interacting with police. They didn't… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
The blues records of each decade explain something about the philosophical basis of our lives as black people. ... Blues is a… — Sherley Anne Williams Copy Share Image
No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I will not sit in a room with black people when the N word is used. I know it was meant to… — Maya Angelou 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
As far as I'm concerned, and this is a big theme of mine, I'm not interested in white people loving me. It's… — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
“The "we" evoked here is all of us, black people/people of color, who are daily bombarded by a powerful colonizing whiteness that… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
I like seeing things that you don't normally see. Black people are so diverse, we do so many things, we have given… — Tichina Arnold Copy Share Image
President [Barack] Obama's choice of Rahm Emmanuel as his Chief of Staff was questionable, and perhaps coverups around the police violence against… — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
Its funny how black peoples got pick at about how big their lips was and ass back in the days..Now time has… — FRENCHQUEEN Copy Share Image
A white lady came running up to me after a show. She goes, What gives you the right to do jokes about… — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image
I met one child there eleven years old, speaking three languages [in Guinea]. He could speak English, French and Malinke. Speaking my… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
If I'm a racist, why is one of the top civil rights activists of the 1960s asking me to be a centerpiece… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
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