Black Quote by Assata Shakur

Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.

— Assata Shakur

The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and…

— Grace Lee Boggs

Why should blacks feel elated about seeing men walk on the moon when millions of poor blacks and whites don't have enough money to…

— Marion Barry

I'm African American / I'm African / I'm black as the moon,

— Kendrick Lamar

Black men loving black men is THE revolutionary act.

— Marlon Riggs

The revolution is that we can be anything. We don't have to be one thing or the other. The idea that it is my…

— Courtney A. Kemp

Black people are achievers; we're survivors.

— Roxie Roker

If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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

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

Yeah, we've made beautiful strides, but what percentage of black people has made that stride when I go back to my neighborhood and see…

— Larry Johnson

I think that we are all deeply, deeply committed to the liberation of black people. And so, when you put people together who have…

— Alicia Garza