America Quote by Cornel West

Crisis' seems to be too mild a word to describe conditions in countless African-American communities. It is beyond crisis when in the richest nation…

— Johnnetta B. Cole

That existential crisis is something you rarely see portrayed by black characters; the idea that people think about their own existence and that they…

— Boots Riley

Black America surely faces an existential crisis, but not the one imagined in the condescending news media - of somehow getting non-black America to…

— James Howard Kunstler

“We are not going through an "economy crisis"; we are going through a "spiritual transition". On a deeper level, the collective conscious of humanity…

— Christopher Dines

The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.

— Manning Marable

“There is no Black person here who can afford to wait to be led into positive action for survival. Each one of us must…

— Audre Lorde

The cornerstones of this country's operation are economic and political strength and power. The black man doesn't have the economic strength - and it…

— Malcolm X

“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

For the first time in our history, every spectrum of black thought is in the same room on the same page with a cause…

— Louis Farrakhan

The idea of capitalism and the relation that black people especially have to capitalism is something that's interesting to us.

— Stephen Glover

I would suggest is that in the latter 1990s it is extremely important to look at the predicament of black people within the context…

— Angela Davis

The problem of racial difference in America - and in modern life more broadly - is always presented as an economic, political, biological or…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams