Black Quote by Bobby Seale

“To blacks, it was abundantly clear what groups like the NAACP and CORE wanted; the NOI, by contrast and largely by design, had no…

— Manning Marable

We wanted black power to be all things to all people.

— Cleveland Sellers

“Too few of us from the Black Power generation and the movements to take power in cities through the election of black elected officials…

— Junius Williams

As a writer, I was shaped by a desire to write for black people. That things were not being represented. That was my motivating…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

For black America needs a politics whose first mission isn't the reinforcement of the idea of black America; and a discourse of race that…

— Anonymous

Earlier in my college career, there was no doubt in my mind that as a member of the Black community I was somehow obligated…

— Michelle Obama

It was necessary, as a black historian, to have a personal agenda.

— John Hope Franklin

The Black Lives Matter National Network and the movement at large are sophisticated. We're not easily won over by talking points and campaign trail…

— Patrisse Cullors

The institutionalization of Black Studies, Feminist Studies, all of these things, led to a sense that the struggle was over for a lot of…

— bell hooks

It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.

— Elijah Cummings

One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to do field…

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

“Okay, here’s the first speech. You guys know what ‘black’ means, right? It means a program or project that is not acknowledged by the…

— Tom Clancy