Dangerous Quote by Carl Hart

The notion that black folks have nothing to learn from scholarship that may reflect racial or racist biases is dangerous. It promotes closed-mindedness and…

— Bell Hooks

I think Black intellectuals see too deeply. That's the problem. It's a cause of anxiety, because we see things differently.

— Ishmael Reed

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

I remember classes in college where the professor was espousing certain theories about how blacks were inherently less intelligent. But I learned a long…

— Condoleezza Rice

. . . no Black woman can become an intellectual without decolonizing her mind.

— Bell Hooks

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

The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed.

— Alfred North Whitehead

I would love to be a well-educated black, because I believe they do have an actual advantage.

— Pope Francis

What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts…

— Angelina Grimke

Obviously I've been friends with loads of white people and there's certain things that happen and even though they're constantly around black people, they…

— Michail Antonio

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

— Ad Reinhardt

“I am an educated black woman in a time when educated black people will be called upon to risk everything for the rights of…

— Allan Dare Pearce