When I first started writing plays I couldn't write good dialogue because I didn't respect how black people talked. I thought that… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
“From the White House on down, the myth holds that fatherhood is the great antidote to all that ails black people. But… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For most Black people there is still poverty and desperation. The Ghettos still exist, and the proportion of Blacks in prison is… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“A group we can call segregationists has blamed Black people themselves for the racial disparities. A group we can call antiracists has… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
You have to be very careful introducing the truth to the black man, who has never previously heard the truth about himself.… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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
“What is the black shadow? It's the running inner dialogue we have with ourselves all day long about our fears of being… — Marlene F. Watson 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
My issue is race. I feel black people nowadays have to conform to this one ideal. We all have to be the… — Kamanda Ndama Copy Share Image
“Knowing that there was such a thing as outdoors bred in us a hunger for property, for ownership. The firm possession of… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I think that's something that we as black people in this country have been robbed of. I compare it to my brother's… — Eric Reid Copy Share Image
First thing we have to do is recognize the time. We're at the end of the time of the White world to… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
“You can't leave the show," King told Nichols. "We are there because you are there." Black people have been imagined in the… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
“They tried to explain to the missionaries that it was they who put Adam and Eve out of the village because they… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
My definition of good is that you understand that this is a question of power. That you be willing to give up… — Sister Souljah Copy Share Image
When the nuclear weapons were sent to the racist South African government, where a few million white people subjugated more than 13… — Alejandro Castro Espin 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 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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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 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
“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
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
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
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
Two parents can't raise a child any more than one. You need a whole community - everybody - to raise a child.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“chain kept moving, and Ball led the file down through Virginia into North Carolina at a steady pace. As the days wore… — Edward E. Baptist Copy Share Image
