“I was not always a believer in reparations. I’d read TransAfrica founder Randall Robinson’s work on the subject in the late ’90s,… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“It is, then, not simply a question of black power or white power, but of how meaningfully to reenfranchise human power. This,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Between 1980 and 2008, blacks made up 52.5% of homicide offenders, despite making up just 12.2% of the population. In the same… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you're relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there's more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
The history of black people in America, it's so painful. But throughout all that history there has still been the ability of… — KiKi Layne Copy Share Image
“To my African brother and sisters. If you manage to go overseas or to other countries. When you get there .Please don’t… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
“You can’t host or show some black people good time without regretting, Because the same people you are showing good time. You… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
When my family first moved to Hempstead in the 1960s, they were one of the first black families. It used to be… — Prodigy Copy Share Image
I think that hip-hop should be spelled with a capital "H," and as one word. It's the name of our black people… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
“If women, as a gender, must suffer the constant evaluations and denigrations of men, black women must suffer that, plus a broad… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I was more than anything a radical. I was more sympathetic to Malcolm X than Martin Luther King because Malcolm X was… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Words have consequences, and I judge people not only by their words but what they do. And if you look at people… — Joan Walsh Anglund Copy Share Image
If I could take all my parts with me when I go somewhere / and not have to say to one of… — Pat Parker Copy Share Image
I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
When you have a small town where all of a sudden there's 3,000 black people living in a neighborhood where there were… — Jonas Carpignano Copy Share Image
History shows that black people have been second-class citizens, less than human. That's what had to happen with slavery. You had to… — John Barnes Copy Share Image
“They didn't mean it to be like this. But it was like this. Both had other intentions. Howard had knocked on the… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Every student of political science, every student of political economy, every student of economics knows that the race can only be saved… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
I travel a lot. It used to be, when I would go to any country, I could guarantee that the first question… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
“The example cited most often was a gradual change in eye color among Moirans. Eve Moira’s eyes had been hazel: relatively light… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Growing up, I was always the only black kid on my team and (sometimes) I'd get questions from my friends when I'd… — Jarome Iginla Copy Share Image
“Our biggest oppressor is our mind. There results of it are seen on black on black hate . Look how black people… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
I've never seen a sincere white man, not when it comes to helping black people. Usually things like this are done by… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Hollywood is designed to check the box office on Monday morning and see: "How'd we do? How much?" It's another facet of… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
Africans sensed in their hearts that Jesus did not mock their respect for the sacred or their clamor for an invincible Savior,… — Lamin Sanneh Copy Share Image
“You know, one of the interesting things you find about writing fiction is that any fiction you write has to be political.… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“The destroyers will rarely be held accountable. Mostly they will receive pensions. And destruction is merely the superlative form of a dominion… — Ta-Nehisi Coates 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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
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
