19th century Quote by Henry Louis Gates

People don't know that there were very successful black businessmen in the years of apartheid.

— Patrice Motsepe

Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high,…

— Beau Willimon

Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans.

— Thomas Sowell

There never has been a desire on the part of the government that the struggle of Black people in America should be linked to…

— Louis Farrakhan

I must personally say that I do question the sincerity and nonviolent intentions of some civil rights leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King…

— Jerry Falwell

Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.

— Ed Smith

To have built up a new organization, which was not purely political, among Negroes in America was a wonderful feat, for the Negro politician…

— Marcus Garvey

I think it's a bit of a myth that black Americans need one leader. We're not a monolith. And now that legal segregation and…

— John Legend

Most of [ the Negro leaders] who - who, whose existence or whose position of leadership depends upon the - on the subsidy or…

— Malcolm X

If you understand the Black Lives Matter movement, there's no central leadership of the movement. This is an organic, grassroots movement all around America.

— Cory Booker

We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it…

— Arthur Ashe

All talks about legacies of white supremacy must be tied to empowering the lives of poor and working people as a whole. The black…

— Cornel West