Black Quote by Ishmael Reed

Nobody black had learned anything from the 'Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the 'I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation…

— Andrew Young

I think it's useful to recall that a lot of these statutes like 'disrupting the classroom' or 'disturbing the peace' have long been historically…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

There was one awkward moment where a black man stood-up to ask a question and out of habit, Bush said 'Clemency denied.'

— Bill Maher

“Clennon King, a black student who applied to the University of Mississippi in 1958, was forcefully committed to a mental asylum. The presiding judge…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Blacks were more likely to be sentenced to prison following a conviction, but that result reflected their past crimes and the gravity of their…

— Heather Mac Donald

History shows that black people have been second-class citizens, less than human. That's what had to happen with slavery. You had to dehumanise a…

— John Barnes

That's the way blacks have been encouraged to think: that we got to stick together. You've got a situation today where if a black…

— J. C. Watts

If the government can't get the black man justice, then it's time for the black man to get some justice for himself.

— Malcolm X

Any time you see a white guy in jail, you know he did something bad.

— Will Smith

“I think that an objective reader may see how in the society to which I was exposed as a black youth here in America,…

— Malcolm X

It would be a horrible mistake for black people to say, as some have said, "We don't recognize him..." If you refuse to deal…

— Charles E. Blake

“I keep thinking about Marcus Garvey and what he says about black people knowing themselves. It's clear that if the so-called Negro goes to…

— Vaunda Micheaux Nelson