Art Quote by KRS-One

Just black executives have a bias against older artists. We don't respect our elders. That's not because of white people. That's because of black…

— KRS-One

I've always said that: 'We as black people, if you want respect, you have to give each other respect.' You can't demand respect from…

— Charles Barkley

There are a lot of black men doing really well, taking care of their families, taking care of their wives, being successful, doing the…

— Thomas Jones

It is only the Negro leadership, the bourgeois, hand-picked, handful of Negroes who think that they're going to get some kind of respect, recognition,…

— Malcolm X

I believe that white people need to check themselves, account for their privileges, and undergo whatever interaction with communities of color with that understanding.…

— Bocafloja

The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can…

— Nat King Cole

As black people we were out to further our equality. I don't pay attention to the controversial connotations put on by media and the…

— Chuck D

Martin Luther King Jr's agenda was not to help Negroes overcome American apartheid in the south. It was to make America democracy a better…

— Cornel West

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

One thing that the white man can never give the black man is self respect. The black man in the ghettos, have to start…

— Malcolm X

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

Black people are just constantly immature in their thinking, undisciplined, and we suffer as a people. This is not about race in the sense…

— KRS-One