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
Talk to any black person in my age group, and they'll say 'A Different World' is why they went to college. The… — Lena Waithe Copy Share Image
If you are a black person growing up in America, chances are pretty good that you have experienced the police pulling you… — Darryl Glenn Copy Share Image
“Whenever a Black person or group used White people as a standard of measurement, and cast another Black person or group as… — Ibram X. Kendi 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
I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people,… — Alice Walker 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
The Oscars are this Sunday. Host Neil Patrick Harris said he hopes the broadcast will include a 'Kanye moment.' Unfortunately a Kanye… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
When you're dealing with African Americans, family is everything. Because we spend so much time talking about how one treats one's family.… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
As an individual, and I have to say as a person of color, the thing about being an 'other' in America is… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
Part of the popularity with Louis Farrakhan has less to do with the content of his message and more to do with… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
If Barack Obama now, or some black person in the future, should become president, neither Jesse Jackson nor Al Sharpton would be… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
When you get called the n-word, as a black person you can do anything. It's like getting a gold star in Super… — Donald Glover Copy Share Image
Sometimes, you feel like, 'Am I going to be upset about this as a black person or as a woman first? Or… — Jessica Williams 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
It's time for a new National Anthem. America is divided into two definite divisions. The easy thing to cop out with is… — Jimi Hendrix 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
I don't understand most blacks, they think that it's all white peoples fault. All this is just distraction from what's really happening… — Kristen Davoti Copy Share Image
Anytime you see Beyonce, Jay Z, Kanye West. Anytime a young black person's doing good, that's motivation for everybody else. Anytime, anytime,… — Keke Palmer Copy Share Image
Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word… — Pam Grier Copy Share Image
As a Black woman and a Black person my experience has been very different. I have a deep love and connection for… — Madeleine Madden Copy Share Image
I think of all concepts I've ever encountered, I think the one that's most mysterious is afrofuturism and afrosurrealism because I feel… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
When I say "our," I definitely mean all of America. It's not less pertinent for you because it comes from a Black… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, black pride became newly popular again. Suddenly a lot of black people were wearing the fake kente… — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
It's a slippery slope when you make the argument that hip hop is only a black person's art. Certainly, its origins are… — Dave Itzkoff Copy Share Image
D.C.'s a tough place to get love unless you're from D.C. It's like everybody hates you here. The only black person that… — Wale Copy Share Image
When you go to an art museum, the thing you're least likely to encounter is a picture of a black person. When… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
I come from the best era of film I believe; when people were taking chances on films. It's time for us to… — Romany Malco Copy Share Image
That's the way blacks have been encouraged to think: that we got to stick together. You've got a situation today where if… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
I would like to flood South Africa with black personages of all sorts of persuasions: writers, educators, businessmen, you name it. If… — Arthur Ashe Copy Share Image
“As she stared at them, Waringa noted that their skins were indeed red, like that of pigs or like the skin of… — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
Country music is the combination of African and European folk songs coming together and doing a little waltz right here in the… — Ketch Secor Copy Share Image
“Have you ever met a slave, Luke?" she asked. The question took me aback, coming from a black person. I stammered out… — Ryan Boudinot Copy Share Image
A friend of mine said that when Barack Obama was running for president, there was a whole generation of white kids who… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
My dad was very, very invested in image. He felt that as a black person, the thing you could control was how… — Courtney A. Kemp 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
I remember when I had my show [The Chris Rock Show on HBO], I used to run my show. It was so… — Scott Raab Copy Share Image
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Black people don't hijack planes, alright? Now I'll be the first to admit, we steal a lot of stuff, but we do… — Alonzo Bodden Copy Share Image
“Clennon King, a black student who applied to the University of Mississippi in 1958, was forcefully committed to a mental asylum. The… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
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