1990 Quote by Chuck D

“Eduardo Bonilla-Silva comments: “[The] melting pot never included people of color. Blacks, Chinese, Puerto Ricans, et cetera, could not melt into the pot. They…

— Debby Irving

Some years ago I said in an opinion that if this country is a melting pot, then either the Afro-Americans didn't get in the…

— Thurgood Marshall

Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life.

— Anonymous

. . .there is an element of Play that is almost ritualistic in Black folk life. It serves to mediate the tensions, stress, and…

— Bell Hooks

Forget reparations - we need to rescue aspects of black culture abandoned even by black folks, whether it is the blues or home cookin'…

— Kevin Young

It's deeply rooted in the American psyche. Black men have always been viewed as the other, which leads to a different application of the…

— Marian Wright Edelman

“assimilationists constantly encourage Black adoption of White cultural traits and/or physical ideals.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“The Misery Merchants tell us, for example, that most blacks are poor. In fact, only one in four black families is poor, and only…

— Tammy Bruce

I come from somewhere and from specific black people in the South, including my parents, who built our first school, and rebuilt it after…

— Alice Walker

We have a rich tradition when it comes to Black folk... using their influence to effectuate real change.

— Jasmine Crockett

But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

When you teach black people that they are less beautiful, less moral, less intelligent, and as a result you defer to the white supremacist…

— Cornel West