Black Quote by Bernice Johnson Reagon

Music is the very cement that has not just held the black community together but holds black selves together in a fundamental sense.

— Cornel West

With good music, yes, we can bring people together because a good song will touch your soul no matter what and where it is…

— Guru Randhawa

Frankly, I think that's something that black people in America have often done - finding ways under very, very difficult circumstances to be subversive,…

— Andre Holland

So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.

— H. Rap Brown

It's possible and available to any artist to be himself or herself on their own terms, to be accepted and embraced by black people.…

— Mos Def

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

It's good to be surrounded by black folks. Black folks are music.

— Jamie Foxx

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

— Baron Vaughn

I've learned that my people are not the only ones oppressed... I have sung my songs all over the world and everywhere found that…

— Paul Robeson

As a black artist in America, you know, it is so segregated as far as the radio goes and how they position music on…

— Kelis

Black people are the magical faces at the bottom of society's well. Even the poorest whites, those who must live their lives only a…

— Derrick Bell

My flock is black, my flock is white. One has got to say to our people, "I love you. I care for you, enormously."…

— Desmond Tutu