“Here is your law enforcement and media question of the day: Was the TV show COPS real or BS? It might have… — Colin Flaherty Copy Share Image
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“Black people are not the descendants of kings. We are—and I say this with big pride—the progeny of slaves. If there’s any… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“There is an ethnic component lurking in the background of my story. In our race-conscious society, our vocabulary often extends no further… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
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I'll start with the reality. If we're having problems nationally, we're having problems on the state level and then on the local… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
Since the white people collectively have practiced the worst form of hatred against Negroes in America and they know that they are… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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Black is confusing. Where does the line start and stop with what is black and what isn't black? People that are mixed-race,… — Santan Dave Copy Share Image
We have seven and a half times as many people in prison. And we have eight times as many black women in… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The magazines were born out of a need that my parents saw: that there were no magazines that really spoke to black… — Linda Johnson Rice Copy Share Image
For black people who are really dark - and a lot of black people were averse to be dark skinned - it… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it.… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
Even people who say that black people are minorities, there are a billion black people in the world. A billion white people.… — Daniel Kaluuya Copy Share Image
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Part of the history of black people in the western hemisphere, in some ways, has been fleeing from this notion that they… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
The true story is that black people need to tell their history. Very few films are made by black people about slavery.… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
The short-range involves the long-range. Immediate steps have to be taken to reeducate our people into the, a more real view of… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
There are places and spaces for black writers to write about race as a central thing. It's important. We're still dealing with… — Kwame Alexander Copy Share Image
You have a plantation where you have 10 white people and you have about 50 or 60 black people. The automatic thought… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
For black people in the western hemisphere, if you can't generate a mythology that creates models of heroism and power out of… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
If Id lived prior to the 1980s, it would have been different, because I would have been playing to prove African Americans… — Venus Williams Copy Share Image
When someone asks me about violence, I just find it incredible, because what it means is that the person who’s asking that… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
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We [black people] don't respect our elders. Besides artists, we don't respect Frederick Douglass. We don't respect Martin Luther King. You look… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
“We like to keep separate the evils of our national past from the sacredness of our ideals. That separation allows us to… — Eddie S. Glaude Jr Copy Share Image
I remember when I had my show [The Chris Rock Show on HBO], I used to run my show. It was so… — Scott Raab Copy Share Image
I think that the Vietnam War era is important because we tend not to want to revisit it. For black people, there… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
Everyone else can do violence. You know, Clint Eastwood, Sylvester Stallone, they can all do shoot-'em-ups. Arnold Schwarzenegger can kill 10 people… — Pam Grier Copy Share Image
As far as I was concerned, the Panthers were 'baaaaaad.' The Party was more than bad; it was bodacious. The sheer audacity… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
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
There is a forgotten black middle class in America - a group which is huge but underrepresented in the media and in… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
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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As a Christian when I watched the people in Katrina they lost everything. I'm not just speaking about the Black people, I'm… — Mr. T Copy Share Image
[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
Now many things are beginning to come out and it was truly a reality to me when I went to Africa, to… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
“My aim is not to provide excuses for black behavior or to absolve blacks of personal responsibility. But when the new black… — Cornel West 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 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)
