Always Quote by Alicia Garza

We can see that the complexity we witness inside the African-American community today has always been there. Black people were just as noble and…

— Henry Louis Gates

We live in a world where black humanity is a relatively new idea.

— Marc Lamont Hill

Black people have to define who we are, or others do it for us.

— Baron Vaughn

Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land.

— Cornel West

I'm tired of cookie-cutter monolithic representation of black folks.

— Orlando Jones

I think that's the best thing about being black is that we find a way to make our own communities and always give room…

— Brian Tyree Henry

We don't often truly consider the embeddedness of black folks in the American imaginary. America would not exist in its current form without the…

— RaMell Ross

I think we have come to a place in black America, sadly from my point of view, where we have once again begun to…

— Shelby Steele

When you're Black in the United States, you grudgingly grow accustomed to having people deny that your existence is integral to everything that makes…

— Jonathan Capehart

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

— Maya Angelou

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

I think that's the core of black aesthetics: the ability to improvise. That is what has enabled our [black people's] survival.

— August Wilson