Black Quote by Irvine Welsh

The first time I went to West Virginia I was surprised by how poor it was. It was like north India, there's kids running…

— Irvine Welsh

If we got there and we looked up and we said, "You know what? Black folks are still doing a little bit worse off…

— Barack Obama

The sprinkling of people of color through elite institutions in the United States, due to affirmative action policies and the limited progress of middle-class…

— Michelle Alexander

We have a responsibility to do better as black people in this country. I don't care how white people look at you - I…

— Killer Mike

That one lesson that African American communities have learned over the centuries in America is that you can't just take for granted that things…

— Ben H. Winters

African Americans are doing a lot already, but I think we have an opportunity right now to change politics in a way that will…

— David Beckmann

The issue of redistribution of resources and wealth needs to resolved systemically, but in the meantime but there are individual spots you can occupy.…

— Michael Eric Dyson

We have to stop letting people come in here and make millionaires and billionaires of themselves off of West Virginia while West Virginia remains…

— Richard Ojeda

We have to convince the white worker that they have something to gain by forming a solidarity politics with black workers because everything that's…

— Marc Lamont Hill

One of the things we wrestle with nationally is, 'If we want the economy to be strong, what should we do?' Why not learn…

— Tim Kaine

Really, even in this whole Obama initiative, and everything that's going on with the economy, the only way to jump start it is we…

— Doug E. Fresh

“This promise - that you will get more because they exist to get less - is woven throughout our entire society. Our politics, our…

— Ijeoma Oluo