Ali helped raise black people in this country out of mental slavery. The entire experience of being black changed for millions of… — Reggie Jackson Copy Share Image
Black Lives Matter is our call to action. It is a tool to reimagine a world where black people are free to… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
“Some of us are happy with our African hair, thank you very much. I don't want some poor Indian girl's hair. And… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
There were lots of smart black people at Harvard before Barack Obama, but none of them ever got to head up the… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
Black people in America, people from the struggle, immigrants, it's no generational wealth that we are attached to, so we are tasked… — Nipsey Hussle Copy Share Image
The Sixth Sense is not a good white film. Insomnia is not a good white film. They're just good films. So why… — Eriq La Salle Copy Share Image
At this time I'd like to say a few words especially to my sisters: SISTERS. BLACK PEOPLE WILL NEVER BE FREE UNLESS… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
Reparative justice is not about black people standing on the street corners expecting charities from white folks. This is about building of… — Hilary Beckles Copy Share Image
“These efforts curtailed the ability of black people to buy better housing, to move to better neighborhoods, and to build wealth. Also,… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I have just as much right to stay in America - in fact, the black people have contributed more to America than… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
“The cities change. The bus line is different. The train runs on another track, but the scene is the same. Everyday in… — Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor Copy Share Image
When I started, I was aware of using the black as a rhetorical device. It's understanding that black people come in a… — Kerry James Marshall 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 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
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
“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 am for Obama, all the way. I dont support Obama just because he is a black man; I support him because… — Tony Yayo Copy Share Image
Like a lot of black people, I grew up straight po'. Wasn't no question about whether we was po', either. If you… — Bernie Mac Copy Share Image
There are a lot of leaders that talk about ending things like oppression - whether it's discrimination or getting a job -… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
Because The Honorable Elijah Muhammad makes black people brave enough, men enough to defend ourselves no matter what the odds are, the… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
We're going to have to debunk the myth that Africa is a heaven for black people -- especially black women. We've been… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Some black people who have not heard me interviewed or read my book jump to conclusions and prejudge me... I've been called… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
...the evil system of colonialism and imperialism arose and throve with the enslavement of Negroes and the trade in Negroes, and it… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Anti-Catholicism is the last respectable prejudice. You can't hate black people anymore, of course, and you can't hate homosexuals anymore, but you… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
“The official erasure of any existence before enslavement – as if black Americans did not exist before the yolk and the chains… — Bonnie Greer Copy Share Image
I am just a pawn. I was just here. They are after a bigger thing, they would love to take us back… — Shirley Sherrod Copy Share Image
In my experience I haven't met too many uptight black people. I'm sure they're out there. Like I'm some big authority and… — Paul Reubens Copy Share Image
Black people dance well because we start early - there's music being played everywhere. White people? They don't start dancing until they… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
I say violence is necessary. Violence is a part of America's culture. It is as American as cherry pie. Americans taught the… — H. Rap Brown Copy Share Image
What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I think it's really important that we understand the ways in which blackness plays out, right, and discrimination against black people impacts… — Opal Tometi 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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'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
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