Authority Quote by Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

“Not only is it true that many of the alleged cases of rape against the Negro, are like the foregoing, but the same crime…

— Ida B. Wells-Barnett

For black people, being around white people is sometimes like taking care of babies you don't like, babies who throw up on you again…

— Hilton Als

The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time she is caught in…

— Maya Angelou

Black men, we're known for getting into some drama with other black men, specifically black-on-black crime. We're used to the confrontational attitude.

— DJ Premier

White people get to do that all of the time. They get to engage in bad behavior, even felonious behavior, but they rarely wind…

— Yance Ford

Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of humiliation and…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

Young black men are guilty of criminal behavior not because of the alleged crimes they might commit but because they are the product of…

— Henry Giroux

“The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time that she is caught…

— Maya Angelou

When young black men reach a certain age - whether or not there is incarceration in their families - they themselves are the target…

— Michelle Alexander

Women can say anything they want to men, or blacks to whites, with impunity. But strong words in the other direction can bring down…

— Thomas Sowell

Girls who participate in Black Girls Code think of themselves as leaders.

— Kimberly Bryant

People expect black women to be angry, irrationally so, without reason. They think we are animals and we go around like the Wild Things.

— Claudia Rankine