Beads Quote by John Carlos

You got two black folk representing us through the Sixties. One of them was for violence, one was against it, and they both are…

— Snoop Dogg

I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage – though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation…

— Henry Ossawa Tanner

When I started, black people were either victims or they were the perpetrators; they were the boogie men who jumped out of the bushes…

— Joe Morton

“Indeed, in America there is a strange and powerful belief that if you stab a black person ten times, the bleeding stops and the…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck.

— Roland Joffe

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

— Alice Walker

“The white mobs followed blacks into the surrounding forests and marshes and shot many victims in the back as they fled. Several bodies were…

— E.R. Bills

There were many African Americans - many, many stories similar to my story.

— Claudette Colvin

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

— Trisha Goddard

When a country doesn't respect Black lives, maybe it doesn't deserve to be entertained by Black athletes.

— Jemele Hill

In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body - it is heritage.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“If I knew anything about being black in America it was that nothing was guaranteed, you couldn't count on a thing, and and all…

— Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah