Black people have been killed for directing their gaze at the wrong person. I want my subjects to reclaim their right to… — Dawoud Bey Copy Share Image
“black people frequently disqualified themselves even without the WHITES ONLY sign in view” — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
To me, entertainment is really the new plantation. It's the new sugar, the new cotton, that black people work for somebody else… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
I don't stand for the black side, I don't stand for white side, I stand for GODS side. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everything about us black people is complicated, us being here, being a minority, being a woman, all those things are complicated. — Nicole Beharie Copy Share Image
We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us. — Evelyn Boyd Granville Copy Share Image
Actually, some of the things I experienced as a child still linger on; what the white man has done to the black… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
My knowledge of my ancestry, like a lot of black people not living in Africa today, is very vague. — Malachi Kirby Copy Share Image
Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Ever since the promise of '40 acres and a mule,' we have not delivered for Black people in this country. We have… — Fred Hechinger Copy Share Image
Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four. We own this shit.… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
We have a responsibility to do better as black people in this country. I don't care how white people look at you… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
I love living around black people. Home is home. We suffer under racism and the physical deprivations that come with that, but… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The same thing that Uncle Tom did on the plantation before [Abe] Lincoln issued the so-called Emancipation Proclamation.I have no thinking on… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The black people of America have been victims of violence at the hands of the white men for four hundred years, and… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts that much. And we didn't recognize… — Ike Turner Copy Share Image
In rap all these cats were coming up with Italian Mafioso names, all these aliases of Italian mobsters. And it struck me… — Everlast Copy Share Image
“Finally, don’t put on a Let’s Be Fair tone and say “But black people are racist too.” Because of course we’re all… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Hollywood is so fixated on keeping it that way because it's generating the buzz, but that representation isn't right. I definitely feel… — John Boyega Copy Share Image
“As the British Empire fell, the Afrikaner rose up to claim South Africa as his rightful inheritance. To maintain power in the… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
So, to say Obama is progress is saying that he’s the first black person that is qualified to be president. That’s not… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
This country is a nation of thieves. It stole everything it has, beginning with black people. The U.S. cannot justify its existence… — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
“Every February, my classmates and I were herded into assemblies for a ritual review of the Civil Rights Movement. Our teachers urged… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Coming out of the 2016 election, there was a few things that became really clear. One, that black people deserve to have… — Alicia Garza Copy Share Image
Police violence is the tip of the iceberg when it relates to the conditions overall of black people across the globe. — Alicia Garza Copy Share Image
Talking about racism with white people can make white people very uncomfortable, Black people very uncomfortable. — Wunmi Mosaku Copy Share Image
When you watch TV, I didn't know black people were that happy. I had no idea they were that happy. I'm trying… — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
There is a solidarity that black people can find in celebrating the athletic success of our own, especially in sports where our… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
The only way the two can have equal job opportunities is if black people have factories as, as well as white people… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Your heart is black, Your mind is gold, When yah lose'in think like a winner When in doubt think again. Whatever the… — TheDarkShadow Copy Share Image
Ben Carson said black people worked for less. I have breaking news: we built this joint for free. We didn't build it… — Angela Rye Copy Share Image
If you think black people have a motivation problem, open up a Wal-Mart and advertise a thousand jobs. Watch 5,000 people show up. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
They don't make red noses to fit black people. I have a wide nose like a Volkswagen and I have never had… — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
In the gun game, we are the most hunted. The river of blood that washes the streets of our nation flows mostly… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
“the only thing wrong with Black people is that we think something is wrong with Black people.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I love therapy. I talk about it a lot because I feel like, especially among black people, it's stigmatized. — Nicole Byer Copy Share Image
I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts. — Trisha Goddard Copy Share Image
Because I'm black, people think I'm not capable of being delicate, only athletic. — Michaela DePrince Copy Share Image
I am tired of people telling me that black people are beneath a standard when we have to be twice as good… — Angela Rye Copy Share Image
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