As a result of the absence and weakness of black men, blacks have allowed every ungodly thing to influence their communities. — Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
When blacks become humanly visible, when their true beliefs are known, their mask shatters and their symbiotic bond with whites is broken. — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
We grow up in New Zealand from a young age getting up at 3am to watch the All Blacks play South Africa… — Beauden Barrett Copy Share Image
“I swear that white folks need to just shut the hell up sometimes. Y'all make it hard for everybody.” — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
The U.S. military was segregated 'til the Korean War, and the blacks in World War Two were totally segregated. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Let's be very clear: Living 'unforgiven' is not the sole domain of blacks. It can be found in any successful person. — John Ridley Copy Share Image
For two centuries, the South has feared a takeover by blacks or the feds. In Obama, they have both. — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
Jim Crow had unintended benefits. It forced blacks to build and rely on their own economic, educational and social systems. — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
“To blacks, it was abundantly clear what groups like the NAACP and CORE wanted; the NOI, by contrast and largely by design,… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
Most of the people I've met who are black in other countries look up to the blacks in this country. Though they… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
“Hadar, the only time I feel black is when I look at my hands," Spencer said, spreading his fingers out in front… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
I used to work in the cotton fields a lot when I was young. There were a lot of African Americans working… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
“The black officer checks Daddy while his partner glances around at all of the onlookers. There's quite a few of us now.… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
“In the context of the Negro problem neither whites nor blacks, for excellent reasons of their own, have the faintest desire to… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
As I look out there and see the culture of baseball, a lot of blacks and Latins, it's given me a lot… — Billy Williams Copy Share Image
Sociologists in the 1960s, reaching for an explanation of why cities were burning, often spoke of the problem of 'rising expectations.' It… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
“Streets like the one she lived on were no accident. They were the North’s lynch mobs, she thought bitterly; the method the… — Ann Petry Copy Share Image
“Whitepeople believed that whatever the manners, under every dark skin was a jungle. Swift unnavigable waters, swinging screaming baboons, sleeping snakes, red… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“I have to think about that one for a minute. “Everybody’s pissed ’cause One-Fifteen hasn’t been charged,” I say, “but also because… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
“But the statue attracted a middle-aged, brown-haired, overweight White guy. Clearly drunk, he climbed onto the tiny stage and started fondling Buddha… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“I watched these young people read to the audience parts of history that placed our country in context. I felt, in that… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
“I remained abroad ten months, which was much longer than I had anticipated. During all that time, I never saw the slightest… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Why did God set it up like this?” Rachel asked. “With them as masters and us as slaves?” “There is no God,… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
“Just as he did during the Slavery at Monticello tour, David did not mince words. "There’s a chapter in Notes on the… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone. — Walter Annenberg Copy Share Image
“How's that training coming along, Griff? Good old Max says you're a natural." Turner frowned. Any time a white man asked you… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Gotta love us brown girls, munching on fat, swinging blue hips, decked out in shells and splashes, Lawdie, bringing them woo hips.” — Patricia Smith Copy Share Image
I would love to see us, as blacks, get to the place where we say, 'I'm not going to play race games… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
It's not just a struggle for blacks to be accepted by whites, but the other way around as well. A lot of… — Q-Tip Copy Share Image
“I was going to look like one of the sweet little white girls who were everybody's dream of what was right with… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I have a suspicion the blacks model themselves on the whites now that they're in power. 'Don't you know who we are,… — Guy Scott Copy Share Image
I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
“Daddy once told me there's a rage passed down to every black man from his ancestors, born the moment they couldn't stop… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
[A]ffirmative action in the United States has made blacks. . .who have largely lifted themselves out of poverty, look like people who… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
My family's support and the negative environment of the day toward blacks in South Carolina became the forces that led me out… — Joe Frazier Copy Share Image
Seven out of 10 black faces you see on television are athletes. The black athlete carries the image of the black community.… — Arthur Ashe Copy Share Image
Blacks commit murder eight times more per capita than any other group in our society. If I had put all of my… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
For decades, many blacks were reluctant to pursue a profession that was associated with servitude. If you went to school, it was… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
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