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“I understand now that the only time black people don't feel guilty is when we've actually done something wrong, because that relieves us of…

— Paul Beatty

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

Just as important I believe, is Black America can look back at the show and say, "Wow, I think I now understand why a…

— Sterling K. Brown

“The witnesses for the state, with the exception of the sheriff of Maycomb County, have presented themselves to you gentlemen, to this court, in…

— Harper Lee To Kill A Mockingbird

“dismiss white people as the slightly mad victims of their own brainwashing. One watched the lives they led. One could not be fooled about…

— James Baldwin

Black racism is a myth created by whites to ease their guilt feelings. As long as whites can be assured that blacks are racists,…

— James H. Cone

“The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but…

— Harper Lee

We must stand up and say, "I'm black and I'm beautiful," and this self-affirmation is the black man's need, made compelling by the white…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“In order to make this point, we need to talk about race openly and honestly. We must stop debating crime policy as though it…

— Michelle Alexander

“There's more to blackness than bludgeoning people with memories of past atrocities and injustices or the discussion of how difficult it is to be…

— Touré

There are three things that Black people need to tell the truth about. Number one: Rodney King should've gotten his ass beat for being…

— Cedric The Entertainer

I think that the response to the OJ Simpson trial was based on a kind of sensibility that emerged out of the many campaigns…

— Angela Davis