I would suggest is that in the latter 1990s it is extremely important to look at the predicament of black people within… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
You go through the Civil Rights struggle, everybody knew the songs - 'We shall overcome.' Everybody would sing it. Music helped us.… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
Black people invented jazz. But this story [in La La Land] wasn't ever claiming to be that. It's just a story about… — John Legend Copy Share Image
Jim Crow segregation was bipartisan. The refusal of women suffrage was bipartisan. The denial of the basic dignity of members of the… — Raphael Warnock Copy Share Image
Black and awkward is the worst, because black people are stereotyped as being anything but awkward in mainstream media... Black people are… — Issa Rae Copy Share Image
Like I tell people they wind up having short term pleasure and long term pain. I'm a tell what Minister Louis Farrakhan… — Mr. T Copy Share Image
It's time for Black people to stop playing the separating game of geography, of where the slave ship put us down. We… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
One of the worst things that happened to black people in America historically is integration. People ask me why I say that… — David Banner Copy Share Image
Yes, you can have art films about the triumph of the human spirit and all of that, but you'll have it done… — Pam Grier Copy Share Image
As I grew up, I began to discover a little bit about the situation of black people in America and experienced an… — Ahmet Ertegun Copy Share Image
As for the not-black black president issue - white people can imagine blacks worse off than them, no problem. And now they… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
No matter where you go your always gonna be judged. Older folks judging young people for how they dress. Young kids thinking… — Tiz Copy Share Image
Usually we look at it like, "Oh, black people couldn't vote in Mississippi because they had to take a literacy test." But… — Stanley Nelson Jr Copy Share Image
I know that sounds really extreme, but if you just look at the history, you will find Harry Anslinger [first U.S. commissioner… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
The black conservative is responsible for making people question an idea that racism must be extinct before black people can overcome. Understanding… — John H. McWhorter Copy Share Image
The goal of Martin Luther King is to get the Negroes to forgive the people the people who have brutalized them for… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
As black people, we want our story to be this constant ascendance from slavery. But it's not like that. You push and… — Stanley Nelson Jr Copy Share Image
Why can't we have fine black restaurants with fine service by black people who always gave good service? Because we thought that… — Leah Chase Copy Share Image
“Something happened and I confirmed it. Or I did not write it. There is no seems. I did not say the attack… — Colin Flaherty Copy Share Image
If I just point out the fact that black people hurt each other, too, then we can ignore the fact that other… — Trip Lee Copy Share Image
Where are the exhortations for children to reject the self-defeating stereotypes that reduce black people to violent, oversexed 'gangstas,' minstrel show comedians… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
It is our experience that the nation doesn't move around questions of genuine equality for the poor and for black people until… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If the [Vestiges] be true, the labours of sober induction are in vain; religion is a lie; human law is a mass… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
This feeling African-Americans have, this skepticism towards the police and the skepticism that the police show towards African-Americans is actually quite old.… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The teachings of Elijah Muhammad on how black people have been brainwashed.How they've been taught to love white and hate black, how… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
We, the Black people of America, were chosen by Allah: Not to be "special" in the sense that we are better than… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
Black people come in so many different bodies, genders, and sexualities, so it's important that we're conscious of that so we can… — Franchesca Ramsey Copy Share Image
“Others channeled—or were led to channel—their economic and political frustrations into racist ideas, which then led to more hatred of Black people.… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
For my grandfather, there was no distinction. There was no tension between his support for civil rights for black people and his… — Megan Phelps-Roper Copy Share Image
Black people have slavery. And white people have our own thing-stuff we went though that hurt us that we have to cope… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
I had talked to my agent a lot over the years about not being interested in stereotypical "black films" [because] I didn't… — Zoe Kravitz Copy Share Image
Any time a black person has the audacity to tell everybody else that they're also human beings, they are confronted with all… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
It isn't that black people are protected in America by the left; it's that black liberals are protected just as female liberals… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
Anything that could be conceived of that would separate black people from white people was devised and codified by someone in some… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
My job is to be the constructive awakener of the black masses of the world so them know themself and others know… — Peter Tosh Copy Share Image
Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed,… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
In some ways, I value specificity. I think that there's power in, once you know who your fan base is, being able… — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
“Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting alone was the big aim, but after that I decided… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
In general, the mass media tell us that black people are not loving, that our lives are so fraught with violence and… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
![“Black people invented jazz. But this story [in La La Land] wasn't ever claiming to be that. It's just a story about two people from one writer's point of view.” quote by John Legend](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/503/john-legend-1666_black_black-people-invented-jazz-but-this-stor_1679794.png)
![“I know that sounds really extreme, but if you just look at the history, you will find Harry Anslinger [first U.S. commissioner of the Bureau of Narcotics] going on about satanic swing and how reefer will make black people think they're as good as white people - which to him, obviously, was a very…” quote by Maia Szalavitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b14/maia-szalavitz-21394_bases_i-know-that-sounds-really-extreme-but-if_2470423.jpg)
![“If the [Vestiges] be true, the labours of sober induction are in vain; religion is a lie; human law is a mass of folly, and a base injustice; morality is moonshine; our labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!” quote by Adam Sedgwick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ba/adam-sedgwick-38188_beast_if-the-vestiges-be-true-the-labours-of-s_2635257.png)
![“I had talked to my agent a lot over the years about not being interested in stereotypical "black films" [because] I didn't like the way they were representing black people over and over and over again in the same way.” quote by Zoe Kravitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b0c/zoe-kravitz-4291_agents_i-had-talked-to-my-agent-a-lot-over-the_1479516.png)
