Black Quote by Jesmyn Ward

Actually, some of the things I experienced as a child still linger on; what the white man has done to the black people in…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

As a young black American you become desensitised to it, it's just like 'oh, another guy, another kid died today.' That's so, so sad…

— DeAndre Yedlin

We've seen many Black men lose their life over the past couple of years. Not only just heard about it.

— Sterling K. Brown

Black youth, in general, have no understanding of our past. Young black people who don't know who Martin Luther King Jr. was, don't know…

— Yolanda King

We must begin to tell black women's stories because, without them, we cannot tell the story of black men, white men, white women, or…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

My generation of writers has been prone to premature illness and death, especially the women. When Black male writers meet it's like a session…

— Ishmael Reed

I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men…

— Will Smith

I've gotten a firsthand view at the destruction that black men and black women not being able to stay and build healthy relationships has…

— Hill Harper

That's one of the biggest losses, I think, to African American families, is that people, once they left, they turned away from the South.…

— Isabel Wilkerson

As a black woman, I feel like I have a unique experience that we don't often see in media portrayals of the South.

— Angie Thomas

Of course Black Lives Matter and the killing of young black boys is heartbreaking to all of us. Everyone knows I am a black…

— Rozonda Thomas

The young whites, and blacks, too, are the only hope that America has, the rest of us have always been living in a lie.

— Malcolm X