Being sick Quote by Dick Gregory

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

— Maya Angelou

Black patients were treated much later in their disease process. They were often not given the same kind of pain management that white patients…

— Rebecca Skloot

I consider racism to be a medical problem. Racists need serious medical and psychiatric help, because they are killing themselves and making others suffer…

— Ishmael Reed

If you look at the language of illness, you can use it to describe race - you could experience race as an illness. You…

— Andrew Solomon

My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind,

— Langston Hughes

The subset of our population that has not benefited from the advancement of medication is black and brown people.

— Cleve Jones

Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand.

— Harper Lee

Black people don't talk about diabetes that much. I never knew anything. I thought everyone had an uncle with a leg cut off!

— Sherri Shepherd

The Negro is superior to the white race. If the latter do not forget their pride of race and color, and amalgamate with the…

— Henry Ward Beecher

That's such a great book [Bloods]. That's a perfect way to articulate this thing that we're talking about. Just because someone is a black…

— Paul Beatty

I'm told I'm a statistic. I'm told that my young black sisters are disease-ridden... but we are greater than what society tells us we…

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

America is the only country in the world that classifies as Negro any person who has one drop of African blood in his or…

— Edward Brooke