Black Quote by Mark Steyn

When I came to England it wasn't what it is now, then the black people were very rarely strong. I had a personal shock…

— Buchi Emecheta

The story of the British empire helps to explain the roots of most British people: white, black, and Asian.

— Sadiq Khan

The old racism of imperialism not only rendered the postwar political elite unable to see black people as full British citizens, it provided them…

— David Olusoga

There's a great book called 'Britain's Black Past' edited by Gretchen Gerzina. It has a myriad of stories and angles on black British history…

— Paterson Joseph

The refusal to accept that the black presence in Britain has a long and deep history is not just a symptom of racism, it…

— David Olusoga

The black presence in our British history has sometimes wilfully, sometimes neglectfully, been whitewashed out of our national tale. This is not only deeply…

— Paterson Joseph

“They yearn for the security of a lost age. Just as America believed it had entered a post-racial era, Britain persuaded itself it had…

— Edward Luce

We forgot that Martin Luther King, Jr. changed his discourse toward the end of his life because he understood that the real fundamental problem…

— Raoul Peck

You have to look at the effects of something like 'Little Britain,' of how the stereotypes it pushes has impacted society and the way…

— Lolly Adefope

What motivated me as much as anything was to show the racists that a black man could bring pride and honour to Britain.

— Linford Christie

In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.

— Buchi Emecheta

When I was a child, growing up on a council estate in the northeast of England, I imbibed enough of the background racial tensions…

— David Olusoga