African american Quote by Jonathan Anthony Burkett

I say if black people don't unite and begin to support themselves, their communities and their families, they might as well begin to go…

— John Henrik Clarke

We all stand on the shoulders of our ancestors. We're in a relay race, relying on the financial and human capital of our parents…

— Nicholas Kristof

Black people are the magical faces at the bottom of society's well. Even the poorest whites, those who must live their lives only a…

— Derrick Bell

Black people have slavery. And white people have our own thing-stuff we went though that hurt us that we have to cope with. Like…

— Louis C. K

Because when you unite, that is the power of God, you know. God love Love, which is unity. So when you unite, you get…

— Bob Marley

Sometimes black people really want to hold onto our oppression - 'This is ours! This belongs to us.' You can't just talk about equality…

— Wanda Sykes

As black people, we want our story to be this constant ascendance from slavery. But it's not like that. You push and it goes…

— Stanley Nelson Jr

... and we are not alone in this slavery. there are millions of others throughout the world, of all colors and races and creeds.…

— Carson McCullers

It's not just a struggle for blacks to be accepted by whites, but the other way around as well. A lot of people don't…

— Q-Tip

There is still a fundamental misunderstanding, when it comes to observing that when someone is black and someone is white, then that difference is…

— David Oyelowo

So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.

— H. Rap Brown

Black people in America have come from slavery to other forms of being oppressed and there are some things that come with that -…

— Common