Speak Black Quotes

to speak as black, female, and commercial lawyer has rendered me simultaneously universal, trendy, and marginal.

— Patricia J. Williams

I think we need to not speak over black women, not assign them labels.

— Jessica Williams

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

— Maya Angelou

“I speak to the Black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition--about what we can endure, dream, fail at…

— Maya Angelou

White people must speak out against black racism, no matter where it rears its ugly head.

— Jesse Lee Peterson

I think, as a white person, I do not want to speak for a black person.

— Jill Stein

Where are Jesse Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton? They don't speak for Black America, and they don't speak for me.

— Darryl Glenn

Brown people wouldn't speak to someone who was black.

— Alex Haley