Air Quote by Alex Haley

...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute…

— Alan Watts

“The time has come to realize that the interracial drama acted out on the American continent has not only created a new black man,…

— James Baldwin

In 2016, the conversation of the black experience is so broad, and it's very raw. I mean, c'mon, we have a black president. That's…

— Ali Shaheed Muhammad

Pleas for white acceptance of black humanity have a long and terrible history in America, stretching back to the first slave narratives.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

I come from the best era of film I believe; when people were taking chances on films. It's time for us to bring more…

— Romany Malco

We have to be honest, we have to be truthful and speak to the one dirty secret in American life, and that is racism.

— Henry Cisneros

a white person who claims to have no impediment of vision in this country is not, I think, telling the whole truth. And when…

— Naomi Wolf

How can you be more subject; black woman in a white man's world?

— Maureen Duffy

We have to undo the millions of little white lies that America told itself and the world about the American Black man.

— John Oliver Killens

Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.

— Mary McLeod Bethune

It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realise that the only vehicle for change are these people who…

— Steven Biko

“The Southern Negro will not tell the white man the truth. He long ago learned that if he speaks a truth unpleasing to the…

— John Howard Griffin