I look at modeling as something I'm doing for black people in general. — Naomi Campbell Copy Share Image
“If origin defines race, then we are all Africans – we are all black.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
It is in your hands to create a better world for all who live in it. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
There are no black people in Iraq, so how will they know who to shoot at? — Greg Giraldo Copy Share Image
The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people… — Jean-Michel Basquiat Copy Share Image
Black people don't talk about diabetes that much. I never knew anything. I thought everyone had an uncle with a leg cut… — Sherri Shepherd Copy Share Image
Everybody else is out being themselves at work, so I don't understand why black people have to change the way they talk… — Deon Cole Copy Share Image
My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
We got no wealthy black people. We got rich people. Shaq is rich. The guy who signs his checks is wealthy. — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
“When other people are as outraged and as curious about those problems as black people are,” he says. “Then maybe we can… — Kennedy Ryan Copy Share Image
There are not enough Black people in America that we can just throw out our problematic brothers. — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people. — Linda Chavez Copy Share Image
I like a bit of color myself, I must say. At my time of life, if you wear nothing but black, people… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
When I'm around black or white people, I'm always in the middle. Especially when I am around black people; they will really… — Karyn Parsons Copy Share Image
Most so-called 'black' people do not feel themselves at liberty to simply turn off or ignore their allotted racial designation, whether they… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
I'm to trying to say I'm something I'm not. Black people understand that. I'm just doing my raps, my way. Rap is… — Vanilla Ice Copy Share Image
My joke is that three black people watch 'The Daily Show' at any given time. So if I'm watching it, that counts,… — Larry Wilmore Copy Share Image
Black art is not some kind of a magic wand: there still has to be a humble heart attached that's listening to… — Trip Lee Copy Share Image
Being black has been put in such a negative light. For such a long time, being black has been criminalized, but being… — Zozibini Tunzi Copy Share Image
So what you do [under apartheid system] is you convince black people that the reason they are being oppressed is because there… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“I never asked Tolstoy to write for me, a little colored girl in Lorain, Ohio. I never asked [James] Joyce not to… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
We kind of reduce our responsibility to not saying the N-word and to condemning the Klansmen, rather than saying many of our… — Nate Parker Copy Share Image
When you hear the ex-politician tell you that the reason they created the War on Drugs was to get black people and… — Whoopi Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Yes, it does indeed mean something—something unspeakable—to be born, in a white country, an Anglo-Teutonic, antisexual country, black. You very soon, without… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“The distortion of relationship which says “I disagree with you, so I must destroy you” leaves us as Black people with basically… — Audre Lorde 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
“Young Black males were twenty-one times more likely to be killed by police than their White counterparts between 2010 and 2012, according… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
When you talk about "white privilege", you're talking about something systemic. When you're talking about "black privilege" it's something spiritual because we… — Charlamagne Tha God Copy Share Image
Hollywood has had a very limited way of telling stories about black people. — KiKi Layne Copy Share Image
I don't have a problem with black people - half my country is black people! — Mohamedou Ould Slahi Copy Share Image
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