There aren't a lot of roles in period movies for black people. It sucks because I love that era. But, I love… — Megalyn Echikunwoke Copy Share Image
If you read the memoirs of slave-owning families, you'd be hard pressed to find evidence of black people in the lives of… — Edward Ball Copy Share Image
“Call up the ever-pure, the effulgent and the ever-radiant character of true humanism in yourself and in others, and no racism shall… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Calling Michelle 'Obama Barack's baby mama?' Tell me, is that acceptable? But the Obamas aren't the only targets. Fox's pattern of race-baiting… — Nas 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
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
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
My definition of good is that you understand that this is a question of power. That you be willing to give up… — Sister Souljah Copy Share Image
“They tried to explain to the missionaries that it was they who put Adam and Eve out of the village because they… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“You can't leave the show," King told Nichols. "We are there because you are there." Black people have been imagined in the… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
You have to be very careful introducing the truth to the black man, who has never previously heard the truth about himself.… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“A group we can call segregationists has blamed Black people themselves for the racial disparities. A group we can call antiracists has… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
For most Black people there is still poverty and desperation. The Ghettos still exist, and the proportion of Blacks in prison is… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“From the White House on down, the myth holds that fatherhood is the great antidote to all that ails black people. But… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My issue is race. I feel black people nowadays have to conform to this one ideal. We all have to be the… — Kamanda Ndama 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
A lot of young black people in America, and even in Africa and Brazil, would say that they are telling their story,… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
I'm totally in love with Jane Austen and have always been in love with Jane Austen. I did my dissertation at university… — Naomie Harris Copy Share Image
Music in the U.K. is not racialised in the same way as it is in the U.S. In the U.S.. it's more… — Kelela Copy Share Image
What we acknowledged as a nation during the one-and-a-half year trial of George Zimmerman is that the white majority's public imagination of… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
“If not as a true human, let me tell you as a Biologist, color of the skin does not define an individual’s… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to… — LaToya Jackson Copy Share Image
My father was the first black Secret Service agent. He wanted to get into the FBI but J. Edgar Hoover, who was… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
We must address the real threats of climate change in communities of color and across the Global South, the forced expulsion of… — Cori Bush Copy Share Image
I definitely see the genre opening up a lot more. I don't know if black people don't want to get into country… — Kane Brown Copy Share Image
