Black people Quote by Angela Rye

It is amazing how many people think they are doing blacks a favor by exempting them from standards that others are expected to meet.

— Thomas Sowell

Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of…

— Nate Parker

The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once…

— Jesse Jackson

It would seem that some black people want to say that when you, as a black, become successful, you cease to be black. That's…

— Clarence Thomas

There is a tendency to want to treat blacks as a monolithic socioeconomic group.

— William Julius Wilson

One of the things we tell ourselves as African-Americans is if we work hard, play by the rules, we do start back a little…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Black people are the only segment in American society that is defined by its weakest elements. Every other segment is defined by its highest…

— Jewell Jackson McCabe

Black people in the US are told all the time, from all aspects, that they're nothing, that they're less than. And of course that…

— Jesmyn Ward

People have been taught not just to have a negative perception of black people, but to have a belief in the superiority of white…

— John Barnes

If you are black then you have to be better than your white counterpart to be equal. That's life.

— John Barnes

There is a perception within our community and the world that black people don't love each other. That we don't fight for each other.…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

I'm not saying that things now aren't better for black people. Thank God they're definitely better, but some things are still the same. "Better"…

— Titus Kaphar