America Quote by Jonathan Capehart

We have seen an unprecedented gathering of the leaders of black America coming together to speak with one voice, ... The whole spectrum of…

— Louis Farrakhan

I think all in all, one thing a lot of plays seem to be saying is that we need to, as black Americans, to…

— August Wilson

The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once…

— Jesse Jackson

The sprinkling of people of color through elite institutions in the United States, due to affirmative action policies and the limited progress of middle-class…

— Michelle Alexander

One of the things that's interesting about black culture is we don't know about our heritage and about our genealogy because it was taken…

— Xavier Woods

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

Black people are the only segment in American society that is defined by its weakest elements. Every other segment is defined by its highest…

— Jewell Jackson McCabe

“This is the time for black people to stand and be counted.”

— Allan Dare Pearce

For the first time in our history, every spectrum of black thought is in the same room on the same page with a cause…

— Louis Farrakhan

In American history, Black people are usually the ones doing the work, pushing the boundaries of what America is supposed to mean, challenging the…

— Jason Johnson

To be raised as a man of color in America - especially a black man, and particularly a very dark black man - is…

— Cord Jefferson

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

— James A. Baldwin