Black Quote by Ed Gordon

Today we're just growing and consuming, and I think maybe there's a sadness in that. People are longing for a time when there was…

— Gore Verbinski

When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.

— Jesse Jackson

It is utterly exhausting being Black in America - physically, mentally, and emotionally. While many minority groups and women feel similar stress, there is…

— Marian Wright Edelman

My theory is that nine times out of ten, if there's a depression, more a social depression than anything, it brings out the best…

— Questlove

Being depressed in black culture is not a thing. I just decided not to tell nobody, not even my friends.

— Amine

Black people have always been more than our pain. The joy is so much a part of how we have survived and thrived.

— DeRay Mckesson

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

When you're black, you have to deal with so much crap in your life from other black people. It's a dirty, dark secret; I'm…

— Charles Barkley

Being a black person in America is exhausting.

— Lena Waithe

We are of the opinion that an important and irreversible process is taking place among the white population. Just as with the blacks, the…

— Joe Slovo

I think that there is a changing wind. There are black conservatives out there, and their voices need to be heard.

— Allen West

Black History Month should be celebrated everyday. It's a month that's kind of sad to me, because I am reminded of the struggles that…

— Tamara James