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We are fighting so that insults may no longer rule our countries, martyred and scorned for centuries, so that our peoples may… — Amilcar Cabral Copy Share Image
As far Chicago, our city was designed with racism in mind, with neighborhoods segregated by expressways and train tracks. Even suburbs, like… — Christian Picciolini Copy Share Image
What frustrates me is to see African-Americans behave as though what European-Americans say is worthwhile. It simply isn't. It's just some silly… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“There is a notion out there that black people enjoy the Sisyphean struggle against racism. In fact, most of us live for… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
In the final analysis, national struggle is a matter of class struggle. Among the whites in the United States, it is only… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
When you go to a church and you see the pastor of that church with a philosophy and a program that's designed… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
That's just how white folks will do you. It wasn't merely the cruelty involved; I was learning that black people could be… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Not only have we paid the price with our names in ink, but we have also paid in blood. And they can't… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
“Most white people in Midland City were insecure when they spoke, so they kept their sentences short and their words simple, in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The only thing I really feel is necessary is that the black people, not only in Mississippi, will have to actually upset… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
In America, the poor have been invisibilised, because obviously this model of success that has been held out to the world must… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Most of the things I'm talking about are essential human rights. I don't think it should be political to say that children… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
Black History Month is a great celebration for Black people everywhere. I just hope we get to the point as Black people… — Crystal Robinson Copy Share Image
One of the key things for me about Madame Walker's life is that she really does represent this first generation out of… — A'Lelia Bundles Copy Share Image
Mable 'Madea' Simmons: Joe. Did that thing just push you? Joe: Sho did. She don't know about us. We Baptist. We tear… — Madea Copy Share Image
Black Privilege is a concrete motive that black people benefit from, such as racism but racism on whites. Black people don't know… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We're primarily interested in solving the problem of 20 million black people. And if integration is going to solve the problem tomorrow,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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Any black person who clings to the misguided notion that white people represent the embodiment of all that is evil and black… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
What I preserved in the figures [at Invisible Man] are those white eyes and white teeth, because that's still connected to the… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Anyone who understands anti-racist work, a white person specifically, understands that it is not black people's responsibility, or any person of color's… — Kelela Copy Share Image
Yes, you can have art films about the triumph of the human spirit and all of that, but you'll have it done… — Pam Grier Copy Share Image
As I grew up, I began to discover a little bit about the situation of black people in America and experienced an… — Ahmet Ertegun Copy Share Image
As for the not-black black president issue - white people can imagine blacks worse off than them, no problem. And now they… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
No matter where you go your always gonna be judged. Older folks judging young people for how they dress. Young kids thinking… — Tiz Copy Share Image
I know that sounds really extreme, but if you just look at the history, you will find Harry Anslinger [first U.S. commissioner… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
Usually we look at it like, "Oh, black people couldn't vote in Mississippi because they had to take a literacy test." But… — Stanley Nelson Jr Copy Share Image
The black conservative is responsible for making people question an idea that racism must be extinct before black people can overcome. Understanding… — John H. McWhorter Copy Share Image
The goal of Martin Luther King is to get the Negroes to forgive the people the people who have brutalized them for… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Actually we've had a black bourgeoisie or the makings of a black bourgeoisie for many more decades.In a sense the quest for… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Barack Obama didn't say "I only want to be the President of Black people," he said "I want to be the President… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
“What pretty much guaranteed that Johnson would side with white supremacists was his benighted view of black people. No American president has… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“I don't expect everyone to feel the same way that I do about land. For so many of us, the scars are… — J. Drew Lanham Copy Share Image
Since I learned the truth in Mecca, my dearest friends have come to include all kinds -- some Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“Racial stereotyping. For Martin Luther King, Jr., and other civil rights leaders, the sin of white racism was stereotyping all black people… — Kim R. Holmes Copy Share Image
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Within the lesbian community I am Black, and within the Black community I am a lesbian. Any attack against Black people is… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
![“Not only have we paid the price with our names in ink, but we have also paid in blood. And they can't say that black people can't be intelligent, because going back to Africa, in Guinea, there are almost 4 million people there and what he, President [Sekou] Toure, is doing to educate the people…” quote by Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/283/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_being-done_not-only-have-we-paid-the-price-with-our_1433519.jpg)
![“What I preserved in the figures [at Invisible Man] are those white eyes and white teeth, because that's still connected to the way in which blackness, in the extreme, has been stigmatized and the way it was often joked that you couldn't see black people in the dark until they had their eyes open…” quote by Kerry James Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/19a/kerry-james-marshall-5157_black_what-i-preserved-in-the-figures-at-invis_2863321.jpg)
![“I know that sounds really extreme, but if you just look at the history, you will find Harry Anslinger [first U.S. commissioner of the Bureau of Narcotics] going on about satanic swing and how reefer will make black people think they're as good as white people - which to him, obviously, was a very…” quote by Maia Szalavitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b14/maia-szalavitz-21394_bases_i-know-that-sounds-really-extreme-but-if_2470423.jpg)
