Basketball Quote by Dennis Rodman

It was because of race that we didnt care much what happened to those people and imagined the worst possible things about them.

— Michelle Alexander

Nobody black had learned anything from the 'Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the 'I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation…

— Andrew Young

You got black people in an all-white country and they don't know nothing about themselves.

— Muhammad Ali

In regards to black people, we have a treasure trove of information that nobody else really has.

— Linda Johnson Rice

Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.

— James A. Baldwin

Brown people wouldn't speak to someone who was black.

— Alex Haley

When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

At the same time, I was listening to black music, and I began to think that the best musicians were receiving the worst treatment.…

— Henry Flynt

Black and awkward is the worst, because black people are stereotyped as being anything but awkward in mainstream media... Black people are always portrayed…

— Issa Rae

People have been taught not just to have a negative perception of black people, but to have a belief in the superiority of white…

— John Barnes

I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we're complicated.

— Viola Davis

I had no expectations of white people at all.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates