Black America Quotes
20 Black America quotes by 16 unique authors
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Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who I am?
— June Jordan
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Where is the raised voice of black America? Why are we mute?
— Harry Belafonte
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When the Kerner Commission told white America what black America has always known, that prejudice and hatred built the nation’s slums, maintains them and profits…
— Shirley Chisholm
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I stand before you today as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the Presidency of the United States. I am not the candidate of…
— Shirley Chisholm
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Black America Has Allowed Itself to Be Used by Race-Baiters and White Liberal Elitists
— Amy Ridenour
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I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.
— Tavis Smiley
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Liberalism Has Nearly Destroyed Black America, And Now It’s Time For Black America To Return The Favor
— Elbert Guillory
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The question of religion in black America is something filmmakers don't want to touch.
— James McBride
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Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults.
— Maggie Gallagher
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Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.
— Richard M. Nixon
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There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and…
— Barack Obama
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I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should…
— Will Smith
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Jeremiah Wright is one of the greatest prophetic preachers that black America has produced. What I find striking is that many white brothers and sisters…
— Michael Eric Dyson
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The rise of African nations concurrent with the spread of the Nation of Islam and the civil rights movement gave black America a burst of…
— John Henrik Clarke
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Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal.
— bell hooks
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I thought our community should have a deep dialogue to make black America better. I believe if we make black America better, we make all…
— Tavis Smiley
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We believe that when you make Black America better - you make all of America better.
— Tavis Smiley
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Obama was elected in a flourish of promise that many in the African-American community believed would help not only to symbolize African-American progress since the…
— Douglas Wilder
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In black America mother love is second only to the love of God - but just slightly.
— Michael Eric Dyson
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The crisis in black America is threefold...economic...political...and spiritual.
— Cornel West
Who Wrote These Black America Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 20 Black America Quotes as follows: