Black Quote by Jurnee Smollett-Bell

Black people in the US are told all the time, from all aspects, that they're nothing, that they're less than. And of course that…

— Jesmyn Ward

With those kinds of statistics, there are real concerns that cannot be explained away other than race. How long do we turn a blind…

— Richard Ney

I'm twice as likely to be excluded from school, twice as likely to be arrested and five times as likely to die in childbirth…

— Judi Love

Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.

— Dick Gregory

The subset of our population that has not benefited from the advancement of medication is black and brown people.

— Cleve Jones

I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.

— Bell Hooks

I don't want our white working class sisters and brothers to feel as though their pain is not important because it is. But at…

— Nina Turner

Yeah, we've made beautiful strides, but what percentage of black people has made that stride when I go back to my neighborhood and see…

— Larry Johnson

... black women have always found that in the social order of things we're the least likely to be believed--by anyone.

— Joycelyn Elders

My comments concerning persons afflicted with AIDS as well as various minority groups have left people wondering if I am a racist,

— John Rocker

“Many black people in the UK are vitamin D deficient.”

— Steven Magee

I am tired of people telling me that black people are beneath a standard when we have to be twice as good all the…

— Angela Rye