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
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
If all we are for is black people and white people who like black people, then I have nothing to say to… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
I feel like I missed my era, because I remember the time when black people uplifted each other and looked for the… — Michael Jai White Copy Share Image
If I make a joke about black people or Asian people or whatever, and then an Asian comes up to me afterwards… — Brad Williams Copy Share Image
Before the advent of the white man, black people were doing all kinds of things with their hair. The rejection of kinks… — Lupita Nyong'o 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
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
“In historical terms women, black people in general, were very attracted to very bright-colored clothing. Most people are frightened by color anyway...They… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
There is still an assumption among many people that to be black is to be lower class. In the last fifteen to… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
In England, you feel like a member of the revolutionary guard the minute you even mention race. But I do think that… — David Harewood Copy Share Image
“With every Black first, the blame shifted to those Black people who failed to break away. Du Bois’s The Crisis tried to… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“But most Americans cannot comprehend the scrutiny that black people have been under since the days we were dragged here in bondage.… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
You see Martin Luther King is dead and Huey Newton is not. And Malcolm X is dead and Bobby Seale is not.… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
When you think of the KKK, they actually have as their emblem a fiery cross. And they don't see any contradiction between… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
It had long been true, and prisoners knew this better than anyone, that the poorer you were the more likely you were… — Howard Zinn 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
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
Racial oppression of black people in America has done what neither class oppression or sexual oppression, with all their perniciousness, has ever… — Eleanor Holmes Norton Copy Share Image
I'm determined to disagree with people without being disagreeable. That's part of the empathy. Empathy doesn't just extend to cute little kids.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I would like to remind the black ministry and indeed all black people that God is not in the habit of coming… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
I had forgotten that Jess felt about long words the way that racists feel about black people: she hated them, and wanted… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Slave masters thought they were making a difference in black people’s lives too. Saving them from their “wild African ways.” Same shit,… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
I think it's useful to recall that a lot of these statutes like 'disrupting the classroom' or 'disturbing the peace' have long… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
Whatever happens to us, however unjustified, will be slight compared to what has happened already to the Vietnamese people, to the Black… — David Dellinger Copy Share Image
The Black Lives Matter movement has to, by its very nature, be intersectional because of the complexities of who black people are… — Alicia Garza Copy Share Image
Certainly, black horror movie fans have, you know, been particularly vocal. I mean, there's the whole Eddie Murphy routine about, you know,… — Jordan Peele Copy Share Image
Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose… — Katherine Dunham Copy Share Image
“The more antiracist W. E. B. Du Bois became, the more he realized that trying to persuade powerful racists was a waste… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
When white people wear baggy clothing and speak gibberish they're homeless, when black people wear baggy clothing and speak gibberish they're called… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
If a girl understand your bull-shit, sticks through your childish acts, care for you even when you've done jack-shit for her! It's… — London Mond Copy Share Image
You don't need someone destroying you when your own people are the worst messengers possible. And this is what black people in… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
Your ancestors dragged these black people from their homes by force; and in the white man's quest for wealth and an easy… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Many black people I know are proud of the Irish part of their heritage - an Irish grandparent, say - but they… — Tom Paulin Copy Share Image
Black people need to share collective dollars and demand equal representation, and the way you do that is by controlling their own… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
People say all lives matter. And that's true, but it's just black people that are getting shot in the back running or… — Ras Baraka Copy Share Image
When I was young I was one of the second generation of black people in Holland. My father was the first. My… — Ruud Gullit Copy Share Image
I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Presidential elections and the voter experience have long been fraught for black people. From racist poll taxes to made-up literacy tests to… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
The movement for black lives isn't just about black people. Black liberation has never just been about black people. It's been about… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
