Black Quote by Lisa Bonet

One of the reasons that so many people of color and poor people are in prison is that the deindustrialization of the economy has…

— Angela Davis

Most prisons in this country are in the middle of nowhere, which makes it much easier for us all to throw those people away.…

— W. Kamau Bell

Wherever there's a prison, for the most part, especially where there's Black people, it's overcrowded. I don't know who really gets out.

— Terry McMillan

Prisons are out of public sight, and most often out of mind. But the vast majority of prisoners will at some point leave jail…

— David Lidington

Unfortunately, prisons try very hard to make us inhuman and unreal by denying our image, and thus our existence, to the rest of the…

— Chelsea Manning

The U.S. prison system, over all, disproportionately affects black and brown people, but people of color are overrepresented to a greater degree in private…

— Clint Smith

“Going into any prison is deeply confusing if you know anything about the racial demographics of America. The extreme overrepresentation of people of color,…

— Bryan Stevenson

Prisons are hate factories, Pastor, and society wants more and more of them.

— John Grisham

Most of us think prison is a place where bad people go - which is what I thought for a long time - until…

— Ava DuVernay

Prisons are big businesses, which I hadn't realized. A lot of these name brand labels that we wear - they're using prison labor and…

— Da Brat

Our prisons are very bad. When I was in Ikoyi prison, people were dying every day. They were carrying bodies out of the prison…

— Fela Kuti

There are hundreds of prisons - sexual, political, cultural. But being a prisoner also gives you impetus.

— Gerald Stern