African american Quote by Bell Hooks

Studies that bring clarity and direction to the black male situation as an integral part of the black family/community are unpopular, not easy to…

— Haki R. Madhubuti

The strange proposition that black intellectuals - regardless of their training - are 'race experts' mainly because they are black is naive and potentially…

— Carl Hart

Critical Race Theory offers of discrimination frameworks as ways of understanding and eradicating racism. The focus on "discrimination" as the way to understand racism…

— Dean Spade

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

— Toni Morrison

I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.

— Ad Reinhardt

I think often if people don't have a lot of experience with a particular type of person or a particular type of brain, they…

— Morgan Parker

“The stereotypical images we hold toward groups are powerful in influencing what people see and expect of students. Unless educators consciously try to undermine…

— Pedro A. Noguera

“McWhorter claims that low black educational achievements are not the result of racism but of an attitude within the black community that academic achievement…

— Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson

“Understanding whiteness, regardless of class, is key to understanding racism.”

— Debby Irving

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

Teaching Black Studies, I find that students are quick to label a black person who has grown up in a predominantly white setting and…

— Bell Hooks

Racial understanding is not something we find, but something that we must create. Through education, we seek to change attitudes.

— Martin Luther King, Jr