Believe Quote by Clive Lewis

I think that, for so much of our matriculation through American society, black people sort of feel like outsiders.

— Kenya Barris

I think that's the best thing about being black is that we find a way to make our own communities and always give room…

— Brian Tyree Henry

The history of black America was from slavery, oppression, civil rights, and you felt kind of isolated as an entity in our country.

— Rza

Black people are the magical faces at the bottom of society's well. Even the poorest whites, those who must live their lives only a…

— Derrick Bell

Quite frankly, black folks have always been at the core of what it's meant to make this nation human.

— Alicia Garza

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

The one thing I've learned, getting out to all those foreign and domestic locales, is that people in every country of the 'civilized' world…

— Wolfman Jack

As black people we were out to further our equality. I don't pay attention to the controversial connotations put on by media and the…

— Chuck D

I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we're complicated, that we are indeed messy, that we do our best with…

— Viola Davis

I'm not for having to support everything that's black, because I definitely don't. But I do feel like it is imperative for us to…

— Kenya Barris

Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of…

— Nate Parker

And I feel like, as a black man within black culture, I know very well firsthand - as do my parents and my grandparents…

— Kenya Barris