America Quote by Eleanor Holmes Norton

There has always been a conscious effort to destroy any upliftment of the black race, whether that be physically, mentally, psychologically, morally, culturally, or…

— KRS-One

Blacks have experienced a history of victimization in America, beginning obviously in slavery and then another 100 years of segregation. I grew up in…

— Shelby Steele

I think we have come to a place in black America, sadly from my point of view, where we have once again begun to…

— Shelby Steele

I think it's really important that we understand the ways in which blackness plays out, right, and discrimination against black people impacts different communities…

— Opal Tometi

Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who…

— Toni Morrison

That's one of the beauties, I think, of African American life. There was this thing called slavery and adjustments were made. It literally destroyed…

— John Edgar Wideman

Systemically, there hasn't been an oppression more overt and long-lasting than economic oppression against black people and minorities in this country.

— Kerby Jean-Raymond

Being black has been put in such a negative light. For such a long time, being black has been criminalized, but being black is…

— Zozibini Tunzi

White America has seen to it that Black history has been suppressed in schools and in American history books. The bravery of hundreds of…

— Huey Newton

While America is generally a violent place, no culture in this country glorifies violence more than the African-American community. And consequently, no other racial…

— Jemele Hill

I've gotten a firsthand view at the destruction that black men and black women not being able to stay and build healthy relationships has…

— Hill Harper

Weirdly enough, the best thing that ever happened to black people in the last twenty or thirty years was the O.J. Simpson verdict because…

— Ann Coulter