There is much about the shared terrain of being a black person in the United States that is not seen on small… — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
One of the big mistakes they made in Europe is that the circumstances in which you most frequently read or hear the… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“The trick to realize that the boys who talk so much about being rejected that it seems like the’re proud of it… — Julie Klausner Copy Share Image
I've had frank conversations with theaters who say, 'We love your play, but we've already done a play by another black person… — Katori Hall Copy Share Image
“Never mind that it's not owned by a black person anymore. You can still learn a lot from BET. Primarily, you will… — Baratunde Thurston Copy Share Image
“The American revolution, the terms are these: not that I drive you out or that you drive me out, but that we… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
As much as I'm a black person from America, I'm a black person from Africa, too. — Nipsey Hussle Copy Share Image
“The animosity I felt from the colored people I encountered growing up was one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
I have a perhaps naive point of view informed by my own kind of snowflake-in-the-unique-sense rather than the political sense, personal story.… — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share Image
“The same radical egalitarianism, however, could just as naturally lead to the belief that any white person, made in the image of… — Andrew Himes Copy Share Image
“You taste injustice, even if it’s fictional, really taste it,it has a way of doing that. Sometimes, you can never put the… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
You have to be resilient to be a black person in America. The thing about being resilient is being able to fall… — Teyonah Parris Copy Share Image
For some reason, we're brainwashed to think if you're not a thug or an idiot, you're not black enough. If you go… — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
When someone asks me about violence, I just find it incredible, because what it means is that the person who’s asking that… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
So, to say Barack Obama is progress is saying that he's the first black person that is qualified to be president. That's… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
When a black person kills a black person, the media ignores it completely. — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
On the one hand, there is no reason that a black person needs to live a portion of his or her life… — Henry Hampton Copy Share Image
I was no stranger to racism. Having grown up a black person in the '60s and '70s, I knew that prejudice was… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
I've been treated with the utmost respect by the whitest of white guys, and I've been treated bad by the whitest of… — Ed Reed Copy Share Image
Certainly I feel like I'm the tip of the arrow at times because certainly the national media wants to talk about the… — Tim Scott Copy Share Image
“I asked another friend what it's like being the mother of a black son. "The condition of black life is one of… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
My family is Jamaican. We were just the slaves that were dropped off over there. And at the end of the day… — Jodie Turner-Smith Copy Share Image
They say that every Jewish person is supposed to love one black person in his life. I'm glad Lorne Michaels chose me. — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
To be a black person is to come from a long bloodline of survivors and storytellers, with a resilience that people can't… — Lena Waithe Copy Share Image
If you see black people being portrayed in this one way well then, when you see a black person in real life,… — KiKi Layne Copy Share Image
