Black Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I think that, for so much of our matriculation through American society, black people sort of feel like outsiders.

— Kenya Barris

I think, all too often, this society has too monolithic a definition of what a black American is.

— Uzodinma Iweala

The black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans.

— Leslie Fiedler

I don't think there is enough understanding of how diverse black America actually is.

— Uzodinma Iweala

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

— David Olusoga

Being a black person in America is exhausting.

— Lena Waithe

America is as much a black country as a white one. The lives and destinies of the white American are bound up inextricably with…

— Amiri Baraka

Black America surely faces an existential crisis, but not the one imagined in the condescending news media - of somehow getting non-black America to…

— James Howard Kunstler

When the world's moving towards being the most inclusive it's ever been, it's unthinkable that certain basic aspects of life are still so unfair…

— Troy Deeney

There's a class divide in black America that doesn't seem to trouble black Americans so much, but whites use it and exploit it. The…

— Darryl Pinckney

We used to be "shiftless and lazy," now we're "fearsome and awesome." I think the black man should take pride in that.

— James Earl Jones

A lot of the things that we think of as being racial differences are really class differences in America.

— Terry Gross