Black Quote by Frank Ocean

Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it. When you…

— Randall Robinson

When the residue of oppression and fear are compounded over time, when the historical precedents of policing and discrimination manifest themselves over and over…

— Clint Smith

Negrophobes exist. It is not hatred of the Negro, however, that motivates them; they lack the courage for that, or they have lost it.…

— Frantz Fanon

One principle I've been fighting for that doesn't endear me to a lot of people is that black people can be just as complicated…

— Henry Louis Gates

The problem with hatred and violence is that they intensity the fears of the white majority, and leave them less ashamed of their prejudices…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it.

— Randall Robinson

There is no one way to be Black in America, but there is one way we live while Black in America. No matter our…

— Jonathan Capehart

We've begun to put fear into those whites who think they can do anything they want to a black person and get away with…

— Charles Evers

As an African-American, I know all too well the negative thoughts and feelings hatred and bigotry cause.

— Tim Hardaway

Any time a black person has the audacity to tell everybody else that they're also human beings, they are confronted with all kinds of…

— Justin Simien

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

Black people are on earth for one purpose: to destroy, and not to build. The reason: It's not in them to show respect to…

— Jesse Lee Peterson