Black Quote by Linda Johnson Rice

The black community can be competitive and cautious when it comes to those we want put on display for the world to see and…

— Karamo Brown

Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

In terms of school, we never got taught anything about black history. Growing up, a lot of things are hidden away from you.

— Andre Gray

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

— Baron Vaughn

A lot of times, we talk about black people as if being black is all they are. They get up, go to work... and…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

I like seeing things that you don't normally see. Black people are so diverse, we do so many things, we have given so much…

— Tichina Arnold

I think it's important for black people in general to be aware of what's going on and do what you got to work around…

— JPEGMAFIA

We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to document our…

— Erykah Badu

When people of color and their allies say today that Black Lives Matter, the nation must hear and see it through the lens of…

— Eric Swalwell

Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.

— James A. Baldwin

One of the things that's interesting about black culture is we don't know about our heritage and about our genealogy because it was taken…

— Xavier Woods

Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose some of…

— Katherine Dunham