America Quote by Byron Allen

When you have a policy of making sure that African Americans cannot build wealth, of plundering African American communities of wealth, giving opportunities to…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

A black entrepreneur has to be equally if not more prepared than a white to get his fair share of loan money.

— Linda Johnson Rice

Financial inequity for African Americans has been perpetuated by companies that are known to have benefited from the institution of slavery.

— Al N. Green

The humanity that is given to other people isn't given to us. There is an expendability that comes along with being African American.

— Sterling K. Brown

Black people need to share collective dollars and demand equal representation, and the way you do that is by controlling their own economy and…

— Killer Mike

I don't want to make black people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money; I want to give them the opportunity to go…

— Rick Santorum

We can't treat the matter of black economic empowerment as just the redistribution of existing wealth. It really has to focus on new investment,…

— Thabo Mbeki

The establishment has learned how to co-opt identity politics to put the brakes on economic progress and justice. So I would say if you…

— Jimmy Dore

“how much more control and opportunities would African-Americans have if ownership was part of the mix and not just participation?”

— Ash Cash

I say if black people don't unite and begin to support themselves, their communities and their families, they might as well begin to go…

— John Henrik Clarke

I am not merely satisfied in making money for myself, for I am endeavoring to provide employment for hundreds of women of my race.…

— Madam C. J. Walker