Money Quote by Big Meech

My black friends never asked me how much money I made, or what school my children went to, or anything like that. They just…

— James McBride

And the whole thing is that you're treated like a step-child. Here it was down here, everything in the black, because they were stealing,…

— Waylon Jennings

When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?

— Marilyn French

It's the reality of being Black in this country. You can have money, and you can be a benefactor and a leader in your…

— Young Dolph

Growing up black, you are lied to and told to act in a way that isn't who you are.

— Rob Morgan

Either because I was an athlete or because I was black - probably both - there seemed to be a clear assumption that I…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The money I have made and will be making means nothing to me compared to the fact that about half of the black people…

— Alex Haley

Everybody else is out being themselves at work, so I don't understand why black people have to change the way they talk in order…

— Deon Cole

Perhaps some are confused because they have stereotypes of how blacks should be and I respectfully decline, as I did in my youth, to…

— Clarence Thomas

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

Every day of my life I walk with the idea that I am black, no matter how successful I am. And our success is…

— Danny Glover

As a black man working in the business, it's a challenge sometimes to get some of these things and these stories told when they…

— Rick Famuyiwa