Bad Quote by Mary Beard

Who I was was not acceptable to black L.A. youth: the way I spoke and my sense of humor. Everybody else had relaxers and…

— Issa Rae

I started writing in the '90s, so I was free to just have an eccentric career and not conform to some idea of what…

— Colson Whitehead

I thought I might find the real me in Oxford. Civil rights made me accept being a black intellectual. There was no such thing…

— Stuart Hall

I was in awe of previous black liberation struggle leaders - Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells. I wanted to be part of something bigger…

— Opal Tometi

I need to get everything straight. I'm not involved in a power struggle between black and white.

— Muhammad Ali

I was a black boy at the height of the crack era, which meant that my instructors pitched education as the border between those…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and…

— Angela Davis

I've pretty much learned I can let that [being black] hinder me if I want to ... or I can fight for different kinds…

— Halle Berry

I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed…

— Toni Morrison

I was poor, black, I overcame all those things.

— Mark Robinson

“The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time that she is caught…

— Maya Angelou

Black Power is a nihilistic philosophy born out of the conviction that the Negro can't win... the view that American society is so hopelessly…

— Martin Luther King, Jr