Believe Quote by Jackie Robinson

It's built into the fabric of this country, you know - oppressing black people socially, politically and economically. They all kind of go hand…

— Maverick Carter

I will probably have a tendency to lean toward trying to resolve the issues that negatively impact black people, but the overall picture and…

— David Banner

I personally feel like black people in America have contributed so much for so long, and haven't always gotten credit for it.

— Andre Holland

When you're Black in the United States, you grudgingly grow accustomed to having people deny that your existence is integral to everything that makes…

— Jonathan Capehart

Quite frankly, black folks have always been at the core of what it's meant to make this nation human.

— Alicia Garza

As a writer, I was shaped by a desire to write for black people. That things were not being represented. That was my motivating…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Black people have been working hard for decades.

— Cornel West

I have done more for black people than any other person in the nation, North or South,

— Strom Thurmond

Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.

— H. Rap Brown

As you know, I'm a black girl out of the projects of New York City, raised in a single parent home because my parents…

— Kelly Price

I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had…

— Richard Wright

If your experiences suggest to you that poor black folk are lazy, then you must be true to those experiences - except, however, as…

— Michael Eric Dyson