Black women Quote by Imbolo Mbue

“My advice to someone like you is to always stay close to the gray area and keep yourself and your family safe. Stay away…

— Imbolo Mbue

As a black man, you learn at an early age the police are not your friends.

— Malik Yoba

“As far as i was concerned, the police in the Black communities were nothing but a foreign, occupying army, beating, torturing, and murdering people…

— Assata Shakur

Young black men in this country have to understand that they have a responsibility. They cannot be the enemy in their own neighborhoods and…

— Jim Brown

“Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others. Black America ever lives…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

At the end of the day, I think my story is, we need black officers because African-Americans need a fair shot at good jobs…

— James Forman, Jr

It goes back in the black community that the police are not your friends. That's an old, old, deep understanding that we have, that…

— Courtney B. Vance

“Has this situation made you fearful of cops?" she eventually asks. "I don't know," I say truthfully. "My uncle's a cop. I know not…

— Angie Thomas

Generations of black women have anxiously watched as our children walk out into a world set against them. We teach them how to respond…

— Patrisse Cullors

We need the cops, especially in the black community.

— Charles Barkley

As a black man, you run from the cops. It's different now, but back when I was coming up, you run.

— Rodney King

It is a dangerous time to be a black woman in America. It’s a time when we are not safe in the streets or…

— Pearl Cleage