Aspect Quote by Angela Davis

I also think it's crucial to convey that the [Black] Movement largely succeeded because of the unwavering dedication of young people willing to risk…

— Nate Powell

Actually we've had a black bourgeoisie or the makings of a black bourgeoisie for many more decades.In a sense the quest for the emancipation…

— Angela Davis

I think it is important to acknowledge the extent to which the black middle class tends to rely on a kind of imagined struggle…

— Angela Davis

And I guess what I would say is that we can't think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can't necessarily see this…

— Angela Davis

The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate…

— Henry Louis Gates

I think the central theme about black society is that it has got elements of a defeated society

— Steven Biko

I think one of the great things that I have seen happen since the rise of the movement for black lives is the growth…

— Eugene Puryear

In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means…

— Angela Davis

America certainly has made extraordinary progress. The collective unconscious of the nation has certainly shifted as a result of the civil rights movement and…

— Michael Eric Dyson

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

Black Consciousness is in essence the realization by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of…

— Anonymous

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