Attributes Quote by John Hope Franklin

I don't see why black should be a negative and it's not negative. The people perpetrating that particular thought are wrong.

— John Barnes

People have been taught not just to have a negative perception of black people, but to have a belief in the superiority of white…

— John Barnes

It is bad enough to be white and poor; it is worse still to be black, or brown, and female, and young, and poor.…

— Michael Eric Dyson

I think it's really important that we understand the ways in which blackness plays out, right, and discrimination against black people impacts different communities…

— Opal Tometi

Being black has been put in such a negative light. For such a long time, being black has been criminalized, but being black is…

— Zozibini Tunzi

Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of…

— Nate Parker

The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.

— Anonymous

The white poor also suffer deprivation and the humiliation of poverty if not of color. They are chained by the weight of discrimination though…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so; life's business being just the terrible choice.

— Robert Browning

There is a perception within our community and the world that black people don't love each other. That we don't fight for each other.…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

Black people are experiencing a systemic disadvantage, and it goes back to slavery, which was not that long ago.

— Justin Simien

There is still an assumption among many people that to be black is to be lower class. In the last fifteen to twenty years,…

— Ayana Mathis