America Quote by Chris Rock

If you're a black person in America, it's really hard to avoid being black. And what I mean is that the reality of your…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

Black Americans are the only people in history who are for education instead of liberation. George Washington wasn't beating up on British for the…

— Dick Gregory

America is as much a black country as a white one. The lives and destinies of the white American are bound up inextricably with…

— Amiri Baraka

In terms of school, we never got taught anything about black history. Growing up, a lot of things are hidden away from you.

— Andre Gray

When you're poor and black in America, you stand a greater chance of going to prison for something you didn't do.

— Anthony Ray Hinton

If you are the normal white American, truth is you don't understand being black in America, and you instinctively underestimate the level of discrimination…

— Newt Gingrich

One must learn how to be black in America.

— Henry Louis Gates

I'm a black man in America, so I'm going to be misunderstood.

— Tracy Morgan

History shows that black people have been second-class citizens, less than human. That's what had to happen with slavery. You had to dehumanise a…

— John Barnes

If you're born in America with a black skin, you're born in prison, and the masses of black people in America today are beginning…

— Malcolm X

When you're Black in the United States, you grudgingly grow accustomed to having people deny that your existence is integral to everything that makes…

— Jonathan Capehart

We don't often truly consider the embeddedness of black folks in the American imaginary. America would not exist in its current form without the…

— RaMell Ross