Black Quote by Lena Waithe

I'm all about black folks working together and progressing together.

— Lamman Rucker

People need to seek out some diversity in their life. One of my friends is a pig farmer in Michigan, and even she has…

— Luvvie Ajayi

We want to make sure people know deeply about the trans community and deeply about Black Lives Matter so that people can act in…

— Van Jones

I'm what they call a 'non-black person of color': NBPOC. It's easy and seductive and common to mobilize around these identity issues, but often…

— Vijay Iyer

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

— Kenya Barris

There's so much energy and life when the Black community comes together.

— Doechii

Black people have to define who we are, or others do it for us.

— Baron Vaughn

“What would the black community be if we taught our children love, family values, self-respect, nonviolence, how to manage money, how to speak up…

— Lashaunda K. Jackson-Williams

There are so many people who have this idea of who I am because I'm black.

— Clarence Thomas

Even though Blackness isn't a monolith, there are things that for Black people in the U.S. and globally are shared experiences. I think that…

— Ayo Edebiri

That's such a great book [Bloods]. That's a perfect way to articulate this thing that we're talking about. Just because someone is a black…

— Paul Beatty

Black people are the magical faces at the bottom of society's well. Even the poorest whites, those who must live their lives only a…

— Derrick Bell