I did not believe what I was told about being poor and black and female in Mississippi in 1954. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
“Poor black men were locked up. Poor black women were locked out.” — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
The poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X. — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
When you're poor and black in America, you stand a greater chance of going to prison for something you didn't do. — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson was a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich white woman — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
“Oh, man, why is this the life? Why is it? Why is one rich and the other poor? Why is one black… — Tony D'Souza Copy Share Image
Every single progressive education fad of the past thirty years has hurt poor black children. — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
But rich or poor, black or white, none of us are entitled to anything. — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
I have no interest in romanticizing poor black people, having been one of them myself in our beloved hometown of Detroit. — Michael Eric Dyson 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
Atlanta is unique to me. You got poor black people, but I also saw this: I saw black doctors, lawyers, educators. All… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
You take a poor black child. Give him a good education, tell him he's somebody, that God didn't create junk when he… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
We're poor black kids from Akron, Ohio. When you tell stories about people like us, sometimes it's going to be considered a… — Maverick Carter Copy Share Image
I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
Among liberals and Democrats, there is this notion that the poor - especially the black poor - can do no wrong. If… — Gregory Kane Copy Share Image
“She said, "I wish I had been born poor." ("I wish I'd been born an Indian" - Robert Kennedy.) The ideal would… — Sigrid Núñez Copy Share Image
I just grew up a poor black kid in Alabama with a single mom and two brothers. — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
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