Always Quote by KRS-One

Racial oppression of black people in America has done what neither class oppression or sexual oppression, with all their perniciousness, has ever done: destroyed…

— Eleanor Holmes Norton

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

Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of…

— Nate Parker

I think that's the core of black aesthetics: the ability to improvise. That is what has enabled our [black people's] survival.

— August Wilson

Quite frankly, black folks have always been at the core of what it's meant to make this nation human.

— Alicia Garza

Black people are on earth for one purpose: to destroy, and not to build. The reason: It's not in them to show respect to…

— Jesse Lee Peterson

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual…

— Alice Walker

I think we have come to a place in black America, sadly from my point of view, where we have once again begun to…

— Shelby Steele

I've gotten a firsthand view at the destruction that black men and black women not being able to stay and build healthy relationships has…

— Hill Harper

One principle I've been fighting for that doesn't endear me to a lot of people is that black people can be just as complicated…

— Henry Louis Gates

That's one of the beauties, I think, of African American life. There was this thing called slavery and adjustments were made. It literally destroyed…

— John Edgar Wideman

I must oppose any attempt that Negroes may make to do to others what has been done to them. . . . I know…

— James A. Baldwin