Black Quote by Jamilah Lemieux

Black people have always been more than our pain. The joy is so much a part of how we have survived and thrived.

— DeRay Mckesson

I'm about looking at each of those perceived menacing black men that you see in the streets all over the place, people that you…

— Kehinde Wiley

The history of black people in America, it's so painful. But throughout all that history there has still been the ability of our community…

— KiKi Layne

I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it…

— Dak Prescott

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual…

— Alice Walker

It's important to me for the world to see black men in different capacities - capacities in which they're probably not used to seeing…

— Stephan James

So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding.

— Alice Walker

I had a burning desire to see black people presented on television in a positive light.

— Don Cornelius

God Bless Black People, Black Is Beauty. Once You Go Black, You Never Go Back.

— Don Kel

I believe that it would be almost impossible to find anywhere in America a black man who has lived further down in the mud…

— Malcolm X

Everybody has their black moments.

— Stanley Kubrick

We used to be "shiftless and lazy," now we're "fearsome and awesome." I think the black man should take pride in that.

— James Earl Jones