I grew up in Houston, and I remember we had separate drinking fountains, and black people sat in the balcony of the… — Dennis Quaid Copy Share Image
The truth is there are people who are quite informed who still vote against their interests. I would argue that, as a… — Marc Lamont Hill Copy Share Image
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I had a roommate who refused to believe that there were black people from Australia and that I just had this accent.… — Patty Mills Copy Share Image
We'll put an asterisk next to Barry Bonds' name, sure, as soon as we put one next to Babe Ruth's name. Getting… — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image
If I'm a racist, why is one of the top civil rights activists of the 1960s asking me to be a centerpiece… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
I met one child there eleven years old, speaking three languages [in Guinea]. He could speak English, French and Malinke. Speaking my… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
A white lady came running up to me after a show. She goes, What gives you the right to do jokes about… — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image
There's a secret government out here. It's been functioning since the beginning of time, and their whole job is population control. A… — Prodigy Copy Share Image
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You're a slave in your own country, White Man. Each year you get to keep less of the fruits of your labor;… — George Lincoln Rockwell Copy Share Image
The laws of spiritual physics will not allow you to lead somebody that you don't love, that you don't care about, that… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Jews who have been guilty of exploiting the black people in America, economically, civically, and otherwise, hide behind - hide their guilt… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
A lot of black people worked with the police as snitches. We used to call them bimpees where I grew up. And,… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
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Intellectual traditions emerging from populations that have always been the constitutive other in the development of the properly free citizen - indigenous… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
Its funny how black peoples got pick at about how big their lips was and ass back in the days..Now time has… — FRENCHQUEEN Copy Share Image
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I like seeing things that you don't normally see. Black people are so diverse, we do so many things, we have given… — Tichina Arnold Copy Share Image
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As far as I'm concerned, and this is a big theme of mine, I'm not interested in white people loving me. It's… — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
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To me the industry has always said that the lovers and haters and principal characters will always be white in Hollywood, and… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
I will not sit in a room with black people when the N word is used. I know it was meant to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The blues records of each decade explain something about the philosophical basis of our lives as black people. ... Blues is a… — Sherley Anne Williams Copy Share Image
We [Black people] have always used our creativity to battle and we're not the only ones. Black Americans are certainly leaders in… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
No, I’m not an American. I’m one of 22 million black people who are the victims of Americanism. One of the …… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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“To discourage slaves from meeting or escaping, slave owners told tales of gruesome research done on black bodies, then covered themselves in… — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
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I'm looking at the head of the household, and the house hasn't been run properly for a long time, ... Clinton was… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
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If we study history and anthropology we will find that all over the world the original people are Black people who migrated… — Runoko Rashidi Copy Share Image
In rap all these cats were coming up with Italian Mafioso names, all these aliases of Italian mobsters. And it struck me… — Everlast Copy Share Image
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[T]he Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar Left, and black people. You… — John Ehrlichman Copy Share Image
![“I met one child there eleven years old, speaking three languages [in Guinea]. He could speak English, French and Malinke. Speaking my language actually better than I could. And this hypocrisy - they tell us here in America [ that black people can't be intelligent].” quote by Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ef/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_america_i-met-one-child-there-eleven-years-old-s_78966.png)
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![“[T]he Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar Left, and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black. But by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and…” quote by John Ehrlichman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ae/john-ehrlichman-73725_antiwar_t-he-nixon-campaign-in-1968-and-the-nixo_1977864.jpg)
