I just want to shed light, illuminate and turn the spotlight over to all of the black people who have been being… — Kelela Copy Share Image
Very frequently Black people and other people of color in this country are taught that they need to be stoic and keep… — Cord Jefferson 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 towards… — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
You have to look at the fact that Hip Hop is under attack. It's not just Hip Hop but Black people, Latino… — Afrika Bambaataa Copy Share Image
The racist dog policemen must withdraw immediately from our communities, cease their wanton murder and brutality and torture of black people, or… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
I come from a proud, Black family, and generations of proud, Black women. So I've always grown up with that special armor,… — Jade Cargill Copy Share Image
In Ethiopia, the black people became Christians 1700 years ago, hundreds of years before Northern Europe turned to Christianity... And here, most… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
You don't see black people winning Nobel prizes for physics or economics or any of the industries or institutions that shape the… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Some playwrights are obvious influences on younger writers. Arthur Miller (realistic, politically engaged dramas) and Christopher Durang (satirical dark comedies) are examples.… — Daniel J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
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“Wallowing in nostalgia for a lost Golden Age ruined by meddling liberal outsiders from Washington and New York, previously a white Southern… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
Racism is when you have laws set up, systematically put in a way to keep people from advancing, to stop the advancement… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
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It should be remembered that hundreds of people of African ancestry also walked the Trail of Tears with the Cherokee during the… — Wilma Mankiller Copy Share Image
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When the residue of oppression and fear are compounded over time, when the historical precedents of policing and discrimination manifest themselves over… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
Black people are tired, especially amongst black people. Tired of us seeing us kill each other, us go through that situation of… — Heavy D Copy Share Image
Historian Larry Hise notes in his book Pro-Slavery that ministers 'wrote almost half of all defenses of slavery published in America.' He… — James A. Haught Copy Share Image
The press has not done a fair job of exposing his [Bernie Sanders] policy. He has not had the television time that… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
I was also impressed when I was in Brixton, and the club was filled with Black people and not one fight broke… — T-Pain Copy Share Image
I'm sure no intelligent white person, in his or her right white mind, want black men and women marrying their white sons… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
What comes forth from you as an artist cannot be controlled. But you have responsibilities as a global citizen. Your history dictates… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the… — Toni Morrison 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
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
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
There is a linear way in which black comedians are expected to talk about race by all audiences - black people are… — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
If you're born in America with a black skin, you're born in prison, and the masses of black people in America today… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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When I was a player the mentality was black people would make good players but weren't captain material or managerial material. That… — Chris Hughton 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
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
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There were class differences among black people then and there are class differences among black people now. There is still an assumption… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
A lot of racism comes from projection. White Americans have a stereotype of black people being criminals purely because they can't acknowledge… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
Black people are not a monolith. Black people have different thoughts. And sometimes people just need to hear the harsh truth -… — JPEGMAFIA Copy Share Image
The Great Depression, they come out with the New Deal, black people didn't have access to those government stimulus packages. The New… — Eric Reid Copy Share Image
[Grew up in Hawaii] that gave [Barack Obama] a kind of optimism, an ability to see things, you know, and frankly, an… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
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