Black and white Quote by David Starkey

That the language of the poetry of Jamaican music is rastafarian or biblical language cannot simply be put down to the colonizer and his…

— Linton Kwesi Johnson

“Awad Ibrahim, Sudanese professor of education at the University of Ottawa, described the process [of becoming Black in America] in these terms: "To become…

— H. Samy Alim

“Concurrently, the growing class power and public voice of conservative and liberal well-to-do black folks easily obscures the class cruelty these individuals enact both…

— bell hooks

The world has white people and black people in it. Even in Harlem.

— Angela Bassett

For a black person who's Senegalese, growing up in France, or a New York Jamaican, that's a completely different relationship with being black and…

— Santan Dave

A whole generation of young whites have involved themselves with traditional Negro music.

— Archie Shepp

Well, it's like, the neighborhood I grew up in is very multicultural. It goes from Chinese to white to black to Jamaican, everything, right?

— Nav

“To be "bad" is good not simply because it subverts the language of the dominant white culture but also because it imposes a unique…

— Cornel West

It's not white versus black any more, it's haves versus have-nots. Unless the black middle-classes unite to promote the interests of the black underclass,…

— Henry Louis Gates

Taking the continent as a whole, this religious tension may be responsible for the revival of the commonest racial feeling. Africa is divided into…

— Frantz Fanon

“In practice, race was a sliding signifier in Jamaica. The social slippage – the sliding of the signifier – was extensive, constitutive of social…

— Stuart Hall

...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute…

— Alan Watts