Believe Quote by Alice Walker

Black people have always been more than our pain. The joy is so much a part of how we have survived and thrived.

— DeRay Mckesson

That is the thing that brought the Black community through so many of the hardships that we've faced historically. It's the ability to love…

— KiKi Layne

I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

Black people are the magical faces at the bottom of society's well. Even the poorest whites, those who must live their lives only a…

— Derrick Bell

Black people are on earth for one purpose: to destroy, and not to build. The reason: It's not in them to show respect to…

— Jesse Lee Peterson

There has always been a conscious effort to destroy any upliftment of the black race, whether that be physically, mentally, psychologically, morally, culturally, or…

— KRS-One

It's perfectly possible to spotlight Black joy over Black suffering. Setting the story in the past doesn't mean that Black folks do nothing but…

— Rege-Jean Page

. . .there is an element of Play that is almost ritualistic in Black folk life. It serves to mediate the tensions, stress, and…

— Bell Hooks

To be a black person is to come from a long bloodline of survivors and storytellers, with a resilience that people can't even comprehend.

— Lena Waithe

Black people are achievers; we're survivors.

— Roxie Roker

Most blacks are happy, except those who have had other ideas pushed into their ears.

— P. W. Botha

That existential crisis is something you rarely see portrayed by black characters; the idea that people think about their own existence and that they…

— Boots Riley