Behavior Quote by Malcolm X

“Since the white man's personality is greatly distorted by segregation, and his soul is greatly scarred, he needs the love of the Negro. The…

— Martin Luther King Jr

“It was usually an effective tactic, another one of those tricks I had learned: (White) People were satisfied so long as you were courteous…

— Barack Obama

When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it is the…

— Doris Lessing

I know that the black man's sick attitude toward the white woman is a revolutionary sickness: it keeps him perpetually out of harmony with…

— Eldridge Cleaver

When a young black man acts crazily in my presence, I can't help but feel that, secretly, everyone is not only judging him, but…

— Cord Jefferson

“Beloved, white racial grief erupts when you fear losing your dominance. You get mighty angry at our demand that you live up to the…

— Michael Eric Dyson

We must stand up and say, "I'm black and I'm beautiful," and this self-affirmation is the black man's need, made compelling by the white…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

It demonstrates to his simple mind in the most positive manner that we have no prejudice against him on account of his race, and…

— George Crook

“I once sat down on a bench at Cape Town railway station where the notice "Whites Only" was obscured. A few moments later a…

— Bessie Head

“Color hate defined the place of black life as below that of white life; and the black man, responding to the same dreams as…

— Richard Wright

As a black man, so often you grow up suppressing your emotions and sensitivity.

— Russell Hornsby

“The real reason that nonviolence is considered to be a virtue in Negroes— I am not speaking now of its racial value, another matter…

— James Baldwin