Black Quote by Dawoud Bey

Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.

— Simone Weil

People say don't stare. Through the photos, not only do I stare, but I allow viewers to stare at the subject, to see things…

— Dawoud Bey

For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people.

— Linda Chavez

It's time for us as Black people to realize that we can do more than one thing.

— Mase

What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It's the weight on our shoulders. That is what's actually different. We…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“black people frequently disqualified themselves even without the WHITES ONLY sign in view”

— Margot Lee Shetterly

I've heard that Black people and Black faces don't sell magazines, but one day you're going to beg me to be on there.

— Michael Jackson

Often young black people are looking towards the alternative economies. They are looking towards the drug economy… the economies that are going to that…

— Angela Davis

I'll start with the reality. If we're having problems nationally, we're having problems on the state level and then on the local level, what…

— Louis Farrakhan

Black people are not often considered mainstream.

— Lamman Rucker

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

Adam Clayton Powell's entire political career has to be looked at in the entire context of the American history and the history of, and…

— Malcolm X