America Quote by Kanye West

Part of what our problem as blacks in America is that we don't claim that. Partly, you see, because of the linguistic environment in…

— August Wilson

Everybody else is out being themselves at work, so I don't understand why black people have to change the way they talk in order…

— Deon Cole

Blacks have no rights - in fact they were three - fifths human according to the constitution to give slave owners more voting rights.…

— Noam Chomsky

Somebody has always wanted me to speak as a voice of black America, but it has dawned on me that I can only speak…

— Yolanda King

The goal of some individuals in government is not to hear the voices of Black Americans at all. It's to hear the voices that…

— Mark Robinson

Black people are expected to be passive citizens, good immigrants, mute and grateful.

— David Olusoga

Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation…

— Louis Farrakhan

the words people do not speak are louder than the ones they do.

— Mitch Albom

I don't mind being black. I'm black out loud. It's more than the people that they are, it's the condition that they represent.

— Mos Def

“Try listening, maybe. Hear what is being said. And remember that it’s not about you. American Blacks are not telling you that you are…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Whenever a conscious Black woman raises her voice on issues central to her existence, somebody is going to call her strident, because they don't…

— Audre Lorde

It's understandable why a minority that was treated as badly as blacks in this country have been for so long would, when they finally…

— Bill Maher