“Only black people can use controversial racial terms such as “Negro.” — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
The notion that Black people must be protected from a free ID to secure the vote is not just insane, it is… — Mark Robinson Copy Share Image
“For that more ennobling narrative, as for much of American history, the fact of black people is a problem.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I love being black. People look at me like I'm crazy cause I love myself, and I look at them like they… — Taisha N Wright Copy Share Image
Like many black people, I initially viewed the armed forces with a degree of suspicion. — Clive Lewis Copy Share Image
Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
For me, as a child, I certainly thought that there were more black people in the world than white people. — Keegan-Michael Key Copy Share Image
Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Poor is the new black. So on this film [The Land], there are poor black people, but there are also poor Latinos,… — Steven Caple Jr Copy Share Image
Even though Blackness isn't a monolith, there are things that for Black people in the U.S. and globally are shared experiences. I… — Ayo Edebiri Copy Share Image
I went to Wellesley College, and it was really hard for me to get a job after I graduated. I would go… — Chirlane McCray Copy Share Image
Living in a state of terror was new to many white people in America, but black people have been living in a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Imagine a film such as Inception with an entire cast of black people – do you think it would be successful? Would… — Idris Elba Copy Share Image
“the discrimination was ignored or discounted, and the fiscal habits of Black people were blamed for the growing fiscal inequities and segregation… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
I believe that Christianity trains black people, especially black women, to think like slaves, and I believe that Islam is mainly fueled… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
The Black church is extremely important in Black America. I think most Americans themselves believe in a divine power, in a god,… — Harry Lennix Copy Share Image
Black people have been qualified to be president for hundreds of years. George Washington Carver could have been president. I could go… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
That is my job as an intellectual, as an extension of my vocation: to engage in a serious reckoning with the present… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Socially, hip-hop has done more for racial camaraderie in this country than any one thing. 'Cause guys like me, my kids -… — Michael Rapaport Copy Share Image
That's just like America. It's made up of lots of different people. We're all different colors, different ages, we do different jobs… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Maybe divisions like that are easy for people to accept, because then you don't have to make an effort to understand people… — Burhan Sonmez Copy Share Image
“Still later, I read Ira Katznelson’s history of discrimination, When Affirmative Action Was White, which argued that similar exclusions applied to other… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The condition of visibility as it relates to black people was crucial. Connected to that, I've always been interested in science fiction… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
“Racism is both overt and covert. It takes two, closely related forms: individual whites acting against individual blacks, and acts by the… — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
Stereotypes wouldn't be so bad if black people were nicer, in general. — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
At least black people knew when they were slaves; you remain clueless. — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
Only black people act like dark skin & light skin are two different races.. — Christian Heggs Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people. — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
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