Black Quote by Clint Smith

Most violence is intra-racial, and much of the violence in African-American communities is a function of drug availability, joblessness and poverty.

— Julianne Malveaux

While America is generally a violent place, no culture in this country glorifies violence more than the African-American community. And consequently, no other racial…

— Jemele Hill

Today mass incarceration defines the meaning of blackness in America: Black people, especially black men, are criminals. That is what it means to be…

— Michelle Alexander

Every community has crime and violence; it's a part of being human. This idea that black communities are more violent than others is just…

— Patrisse Cullors

I don't understand why black people have been so quiescent, so passive over the hundreds of years of American history. Why hasn't there been…

— John Edgar Wideman

When someone asks me about violence, I just find it incredible, because what it means is that the person who’s asking that question has…

— Angela Davis

Violence doesn't have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender.

— Rebecca Solnit

“In the United States, violence and heroism have been made synonymous except when it comes to blacks, and”

— James Baldwin

I say violence is necessary. Violence is a part of America's culture. It is as American as cherry pie. Americans taught the black people…

— H. Rap Brown

Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.

— Julian Bond

I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.

— Malcolm X

Nearly every black man faces an unacceptable level of violence in this society. I'm not different. Money can shield you; it can protect you.…

— Puff Daddy