Black community Quote by Jared Taylor

Especially in black communities, we've been so groomed to stay where we are and not like people in the other neighborhoods. It's crazy. It…

— Ed Reed

My town was all-white and shut down Section 8 housing because they didn't want black people to move into the town. And I thought…

— Cecily McMillan

“One white reviewer in 1937 [said he] had difficulty believing that such a town as Eatonville, "inhabited and governed entirely by negroes," could be real.”

— Zora Neale Hurston

“This “disorganized family life” in Black neighborhoods was caused by racial discrimination, poverty, cultural pathology, and the introduction of the matriarchal Black family during…

— Ibram X. Kendi

There are many positive things to say about the black community. No question about it.

— William Julius Wilson

Earlier in my college career, there was no doubt in my mind that as a member of the Black community I was somehow obligated…

— Michelle Obama

“Black behavior—not the wrenching housing and economic discrimination—was blamed for these impoverished Black enclaves.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

I think the black community is no different from any other community. We need to take responsibility for how we live together. We need…

— Pearl Cleage

“North Lawndale's Jewish People's Institute actively encouraged blacks to move into the neighborhood, seeking to make it a 'pilot community for interracial living.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“It is useful to be reminded that in even the most distressed black neighborhoods, the majority of residents are “decent folk” who live by…

— Karl Alexander

The Negro neighborhood, which is inferior, is begging for a chance to - integrate itself into that which is - is superior, which is…

— Malcolm X

“At the time, the Federal Housing Administration and Veterans Administration not only refused to insure mortgages for African Americans in designated white neighborhoods like…

— Richard Rothstein