“Americans reading early colonial newspapers learned two recurring lessons about Black people: they could be bought like cattle, and they were dangerous… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
Being someone that grew up in a biracial household I never really felt accepted by black people when I was a little… — Vic Mensa Copy Share Image
Photography, sculpture, and painting were wielded as cultural weapons over the course of generations to substantiate the idea that black people were… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
White America's live under this accusation that they're racist, they need to prove that they're not racist. In order to prove that… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
“The confines of enslavement were producing Black people who were intellectually, psychologically, culturally, and behaviorally different, not inferior. Benjamin” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
I had one incident where my daughter said that a girl asked if she was a brown person. I said, 'We're black.… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
The black people in this country are taught that their religion and the best religion is the religion of Islam, and when… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
It's always the case that the minority has to navigate two different worlds. Women have to know how to live in a… — Sterling K. Brown Copy Share Image
I think in order to achieve real change, we as the black community need to come up with real asks and we… — Maverick Carter Copy Share Image
“Politically progressive black people on the Left who are not nationalist, like myself, share a perspective that promotes the eradication of white… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
You're going to have a racial explosion, and a racial explosion is more dangerous than an atomic explosion. It's going to explode… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“With Notes on the State of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson emerged as the preeminent American authority on Black intellectual inferiority. This status would… — Ibram X. Kendi 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 toward… — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
Black people need some peace. White people need some peace. And we are going to have to fight. We're going to have… — Fred Hampton Copy Share Image
Look at how lucky white people are compared to black people, who have suffered so much just because of their skin color,… — Severn Cullis-Suzuki Copy Share Image
Light-skinned black people are seen to be closer to white people. The allegiance to lighter-skinned people has operated in a very destructive… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The black people of America have been victims of violence at the hands of the white men for four hundred years, and… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts that much. And we didn't recognize… — Ike Turner Copy Share Image
There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
When you were growing up in the 30s, 20s, of course the 40s, all black people at least in the Washington, D.C.,… — Ed Smith Copy Share Image
Here in Britain, black people are disproportionately targeted, arrested and imprisoned for drug offences, while organised and violent crime are granted a… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
Too often, ill-informed rhetoric has led to emotional hysteria that obfuscates solid evidence regarding the real problems faced by poor people and,… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
There is something about Sundiata [Acoli] that exudes calm. From every part of his being you can sense the presence of revolutionary… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
Racial terrorism affects the lives of white people and black people and everyone, everything. Racism is contaminating. It can affect the dogs… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
I've been using the phrase Black Lives Matter quite a lot. I'm not saying that all lives don't matter, I'm just saying… — Kalvin Phillips Copy Share Image
Every now and then you get a nice Jewish kid who likes black people and they would come in, and it would… — Mike Epps Copy Share Image
“I hate it when Africans fail to simply celebrate our features, without reminding us of the traumas they carry. Instead of making… — Mitta Xinindlu Copy Share Image
I think that we need more economic-based solutions to the problems afflicting the Black community, and I think that that's a way… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“Babylon was the government that had outlawed them, the police that had pummeled and killed them. Babylon was the church that damned… — Safiya Sinclair Copy Share Image
“Respectability politics is the dogged belief that if black people just shape up, dress right, and act right, racists would suddenly have… — Nikesh Shukla Copy Share Image
“White people were, and are, astounded by the holocaust in Germany. They did not know that they could act that way. But… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, Trump has showed hateful inclinations toward many, many groups. Many groups. The most obvious: undocumented immigrants and Muslims. His comments that… — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
“I had never read a book written by an African-American. I didn't know that black people could write books. I didn't know… — Endesha Ida Mae Holland Copy Share Image
“As Black people, if there is one thing we can learn from the 60s, it is how infinitely complex any move for… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“All these self-serving efforts by powerful factions to define their racist rhetoric as nonracist has left Americans thoroughly divided over, and ignorant… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“The FHA had adopted a system of maps that rated neighborhoods according to their perceived stability. On the maps, green areas, rated… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Merely because I was black, it seemed, I was supposed to listen to Hugh Maskela instead of Carole King, just as I… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
There is no difference. So what, the skin color is a different shade? But what the heck should that mean? Why should… — Amber Hope Copy Share Image
Slavery wasn't something that grew up in the American South. and black people were not the first to be slaves in America.… — Lorne Greene Copy Share Image
Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for… — Whitney M. Young Copy Share Image
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