Black people Quote by Joe Morton

I don't see black people as victims even though we are exploited. Victims are flat, one- dimensional characters, someone rolled over by a steamroller…

— Kristin Hunter

Blacks have experienced a history of victimization in America, beginning obviously in slavery and then another 100 years of segregation. I grew up in…

— Shelby Steele

Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.

— Toni Morrison

Black folk, a lot of us lived as victims in a certain part of our history. And we had to really erase that tape.…

— Dorothy Cotton

Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who…

— Toni Morrison

I think we have come to a place in black America, sadly from my point of view, where we have once again begun to…

— Shelby Steele

I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for…

— Phil Robertson

I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts.

— Trisha Goddard

Black men, we're known for getting into some drama with other black men, specifically black-on-black crime. We're used to the confrontational attitude.

— DJ Premier

Historically, you've had really muddy, unforgiving, unintentional images of black people.

— Ava DuVernay

To be a black person is to come from a long bloodline of survivors and storytellers, with a resilience that people can't even comprehend.

— Lena Waithe

My personal history, along with the history of many black people in this country, is rife with trauma born out of anti-black policies aided…

— Patrisse Cullors