As a result of America's efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in America are now the freest and… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
Black people are dying in this country because we have a criminal justice system which is out of control, a system in… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
We've seen a lot of people come together, no matter the race, and have support of black people. I think that's a… — Michael Carter-Williams Copy Share Image
In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
I am shocked. It's upsetting to be described as chocolate, not just for me, but for all black women and black people.… — Naomi Campbell Copy Share Image
Everybody has told the story of black people in struggle except black people. The black people in the struggle haven't had the… — DeRay Mckesson Copy Share Image
As a writer, I was shaped by a desire to write for black people. That things were not being represented. That was… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Outside of the oppressive nature that the South offered to the black people, black gay people, black gay people who happened to… — Tituss Burgess Copy Share Image
Richard exhaled. It was like somebody sprinkling pepper on his wound: Thousands of Biafrans were dead, and this man wanted to know… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Only black people in the whole neighborhood, so let's break it down: Me, I'm a decent comedian, I'm a'ight. Mary J. Blige,… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
“Tragedy happens - "tragic mistakes" happen - when men act according to their flawed natures, in fulfillment of their preordained destinies. The… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Frank Marshall Davis, the former Communist who was Obama’s mentor in Hawaii, was so radical that he opposed President Truman’s Marshall Plan… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
“You who came of age in the past decade have had eight years of a Black U.S. president, and that gloss looked… — Mohja Kahf Copy Share Image
“Acknowledging that my skin was, in fact, Cocoa as it is, would have destroyed their narrative about who I really was. Therefore… — Mitta Xinindlu Copy Share Image
“Whiteness is not a kinship or a culture. White people are no more closely related to one another, genetically, that we are… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
If we [black people] do not show up and support the march towards cinematic equality, the march towards being on a level… — Terrence Howard Copy Share Image
When the culture is strong, you've got this consistency where black people can grow up in these places with this voice just… — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked... . We as black people, we as… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Traveling in the segregated South for black people was humiliating. The very fact that there were separate facilities was to say to… — Diane Nash Copy Share Image
I never thought black people would say I wasn't black enough. It didn't turn me into a bully - it just put… — Tionne Watkins Copy Share Image
I would say I felt similar pressures that Black people feel in all fields, not just football. That we have to do… — Brian Flores Copy Share Image
Black people have this thing about calling themselves apes and monkeys I know they get real (whatever) and I don't blame em'.… — Sean Price Copy Share Image
Black people lived right by the railroad tracks, and the train would shake their houses at night. I would hear it as… — Little Richard Copy Share Image
My research has taught me many important lessons, but perhaps none more important than this: drug effects, like semesters, are predictable; police… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
Despite what some people have said, President Bush did not want black people to die in New Orleans. However, he did hope… — Scott McClellan Copy Share Image
“Black people were viewed as a contagion. Redlining went beyond FHA-backed loans and spread to the entire mortgage industry, which was already… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Because when you unite, that is the power of God, you know. God love Love, which is unity. So when you unite,… — Bob Marley Copy Share Image
Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America. More specifically, Barack Obama is the president of a congenitally racist… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I don't want to make black people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money; I want to give them the opportunity… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
“The trigger for white rage, inevitably, is black advancement. It is not the mere presence of black people that is the problem;… — Carol Anderson Copy Share Image
There was always resistance and there was always a counter-narrative, but we were told all through the early twentieth century that black… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I think once 'Empire' hit, there was a lot of bad black TV that followed, because we work in the business of… — Lena Waithe Copy Share Image
Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black… — Eden Ahbez Copy Share Image
“The kind of trenchant racism to which black people have persistently been subjected can never be defeated by making its victims more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is some group of Americans who are really, really curious to understand how we ended up at this point, where every… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
When you have the national narrative being "crack is awful and black people are using it," why go against that narrative when… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
One principle I've been fighting for that doesn't endear me to a lot of people is that black people can be just… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I learned that in order to have a strong and credible voice, I needed to do more research into the history of… — Logan Browning Copy Share Image
Things were tough. Segregation was all around - in the schools, the buses, the restaurants, the theaters. But Dr. King worked hard… — Jesse White Copy Share Image